{{Infobox scientist | name = Lisa Tauxe | fields = {{Unbulleted list|Earth's geomagnetic field| paleomagnetic data analysis|paleointensity| archeomagnetism}} | workplaces = Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego | alma_mater = {{Unbulleted list |BS, Yale University|MA & PhD Columbia University}} | doctoral_advisor = Dennis V. Kent | awards = Benjamin Franklin Medal (2014) | website = http://magician.ucsd.edu/ }} {{Short description|Geophysicist}} '''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.
== Career == [[File:Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography,_2011.JPG|thumb|Scripps Institution of Oceanography]] Tauxe's contributions include the study of remanent magnetism in geological and archaeological materials, as well as co-founding a collaborative data system for compiling and sharing geological magnetic data from around the globe, the Magnetics Information Consortium (MagIC).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www2.earthref.org/MagIC|title=Magnetic Information Consortium (MagIC)}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> To facilitate paleomagnetic measurements, Tauxe uses a demagnetized space in San Diego.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21632230/special_room_cancels_earth_mag_field/|title=Special room cancels earth's magnetic field|last=<!--no byline-->|date=15 July 1984|work=The Advocate|access-date=6 July 2018|agency=Copley News Service|location=Newark, Ohio|page=6A|via=Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21632413/magical_lab_blocks_out_magnetic_field/|title='Magical' lab blocks out magnetic field for fossil dating|last=<!--no byline-->|date=29 July 1984|work=Sunday News Journal|access-date=6 July 2018|agency=Associated Press|location=Wilmington, Delaware|via=Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra)}}</ref> Tauxe is a leader in research that documents when the Earth's magnetic poles reversed. Because technology and electrical grids depend on the Earth's magnetic field to protect it from the Sun's magnetic storms, Prof. Tauxe's work has global significance. 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.<ref name=":0" />
Prof. Tauxe graduated from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in 1983.<ref name=":0" />
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."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fi.edu/laureates/lisa-tauxe|title=Lisa Tauxe|last=<!--no byline-->|date=April 2014|website=The Franklin Institute Awards|publisher=The Franklin Institute|access-date=July 4, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21630853/franklin_institute_2014_award_recipients/|title=Franklin Institute awards to honor nine|last=Avril|first=Tom|date=3 November 2013|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=6 July 2018|page=A2|via=Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra)}}</ref> {{As of|2014}}, Tauxe was the general secretary of the American Geophysical Union.<ref name=":0" />
Prof. Tauxe has authored two textbooks,<ref name=":0" /> over 250 academic papers,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ltauxe/publications|title=Lisa Tauxe Publications|website=Scripps Institute of Oceanography}}</ref> including 44 in AGU journals.
=== Advisory positions and distinctions === *Science advisory board of the Beijing Paleomagnetism and Geochronology Laboratory (2006 to present)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.agu.org/leadership/leader/lisa-tauxe/|title=Lisa Tauxe|last=<!--no byline-->|date=<!--not specified-->|website=Leadership|publisher=American Geophysical Union|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref> * Research Advisory Committee of the Institute for Rock Magnetism (2005–2007; 2022-2025). * Magnetics Information Consortium Database Team and Meta-data Committee (2005 to present). *Fellow of American Geophysical Union<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://honors.agu.org/honorsfellow/2626-tauxe/|title=Tauxe|last=<!--no byline-->|date=<!--not specified-->|website=Honors Program|publisher=American Geophysical Union|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref> * Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/members/20033131.html|title=Lisa Tauxe|last=<!--no byline-->|date=<!--not specified-->|website=Member Directory|publisher=National Academy of Sciences|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=6 July 2018}}</ref> * Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016<ref>{{Cite press release|title=American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Three UC San Diego Professors Scripps Oceanography's Farooq Azam and Lisa Tauxe become new members of prestigious society|date=20 April 2016|publisher=Scripps Institute of Oceanography|url=https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/american-academy-arts-and-sciences-elects-three-uc-san-diego-professors|access-date=6 July 2018|website=Scripps News|others=Mario Aguilera, media contact}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amacad.org/contentu.aspx?d=941|title=Book of Members|publisher=American Academy of Arts & Sciences|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=590|chapter=T|chapter-url=https://www.amacad.org/multimedia/pdfs/publications/bookofmembers/ChapterT.pdf|access-date=2018-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140830050459/https://www.amacad.org/contentu.aspx?d=941|archive-date=2014-08-30|url-status=dead}}</ref> * Elected Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2025
=== Select awards === * Petrus Peregrinus Medal<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Tauxe |url=https://www.egu.eu/awards-medals/petrus-peregrinus/2023/lisa-tauxe/ |access-date=2026-01-05 |website=European Geosciences Union (EGU) |language=en}}</ref>, 2023 * Carl Friedrich von Siemens Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2020) *Arthur L. Day Medal, 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geosociety.org/awards/14speeches/day.htm|title=Lisa Tauxe: 2014 Day Medal|last=Kent|first=Dennis|date=<!--not available-->|website=GSA Honors and Awards|publisher=Geological Society of America|access-date=4 July 2018}}</ref> *Benjamin Franklin Medal, 2014<ref name=":0" /> * George P. Woollard Award, Geological Society of America, 2003<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geosociety.org/awards/03speeches/woollard.htm|title=2003 George P. Wollard Award, GSA Medals & Awards|last=Kent|first=Dennis|website=The Geological Society of America}}</ref> * The Antarctic Service Medal * The John D. Fleming medal, American Geophysical Union
== Personal life == Tauxe has a brother, Dr. Robert Tauxe, who works at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21631333/exotic_trips_exotic_risks_part1/|title=Exotic Trips, Exotic Risks|last=Marchione|first=Marilynn|date=6 February 2005|work=Green Bay Press-Gazette|access-date=6 July 2018|agency=Associated Press|location=Green Bay, Wisconsin|pages=D12, D10|via=Newspapers.com (Publisher Extra)}} [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21631843/exotic_trips_exotic_risks_part2/ Part 2 of article].</ref>
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== External links == * {{google scholar id|-_H_FTEAAAAJ}}
== External links == * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uIyUOAC1kU&t=131s Tracking Variations in the Earth's Magnetic Field] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndO_0ppYgk&t=30s Lisa Tauxe, 2014 Laureate of the Franklin Institute of Earth and Environmental Science] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya9vZqKvROI&t=2s Women in Geosceince Panel Discussion]
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