Dr. Timothy Dixon received a B.Sc. degree in 1974 from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada , and Ph.D. degree in 1979 from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. From 1979-1992, he worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. In 1992, he moved to the University of Miami, where he is currently a Professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Director of the Geodesy Laboratory, and Co-Director of the Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing (CSTARS). In 2001 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. Dixon’s research focuses on the application of space geodetic and remote sensing data to study of the Earth’s surface and sub-surface processes, including earthquakes and volcanic deformation, coastal subsidence, melting of Greenland's ice sheet, and carbon sequestration.