Manoj Nair, significant geomagnetic innovations

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.