Dr. Christopher Fox Dr. Christopher Fox has served as the Director of NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) since April, 2004. NGDC provides scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space. Before coming to NGDC, Dr. Fox served 19 years as a Principal Investigator at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, where he led a diversified research program in marine mapping, geophysics, and underwater acoustics. Prior to joining NOAA in 1985, Dr. Fox worked for the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where he participated in a wide variety of studies including the numerical modeling of seafloor microtopographic roughness and the development of automated cartographic mapping from multibeam sonar systems. Prior to joining NAVOCEANO, Dr. Fox worked within the U.S. Geological Survey developing numerical simulations of geothermal reservoir dynamics. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with an emphasis in marine geophysics, a Master’s Degree from Brown University in marine geology (paleoclimatology), and an undergraduate degree in geology from the University of Tennessee. To view presentation click on Making NOAA´s data more accessible to the scientific community. |
