Lisa Tauxe

Lisa Tauxe is a geophysicist, professor and former department chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Tauxe is a researcher and international authority on the behavior of the ancient geomagnetic field and applications of paleomagnetism to geological problems.

[1][2] To facilitate paleomagnetic measurements, Tauxe uses a demagnetized space in San Diego.

She pioneered paleointensity analysis of undersea basaltic glasses and copper slag residues found in archaeological sites, fundamentally changing the process of collecting magnetic field data and the volume of data available to study.

[2] In 2014, Prof. Tauxe was awarded the prestigious Ben Franklin Medal for Earth and Environmental Science "[f]or the development of observational techniques and theoretical models providing an improved understanding of the behavior of, and variations in intensity of, the Earth's magnetic field through geologic time.