Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Manoj Nair, significant geomagnetic innovations

Profiles
People
Manoj Nair
Year Awarded
2015
Type
OPA Science
Affiliation
NCEI
Geography
CIRES

in NOAA ESRL’s National Geophysical Data Center, for three significant geomagnetic innovations in 2014, related to tsunami detection, crowd sourcing of Earth’s magnetic field, and the World Magnetic Model. In the first case, Nair led a group that demonstrated that magnetometers could detect tsunamis in real-time—something that’s been long speculated because the movement of electrically conductive seawater through the geomagnetic field can induce electric fields.