Robert Earl Dickinson is an American meteorologist and geoscientist.
Education
Dickinson studied chemistry and physics at Harvard University with a bachelor"s degree completed in 1961. As a graduate student, he studied meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) with a master"s degree in 1962 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1966.
Career
After being a researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined in 1968 the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, where he became in 1975 head of the climate division and in 1981 Deputy Director of the Climate and Global Dynamics Division. In 1990 he became a professor at the University of Arizona, in 1999 professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), and since 2008 professor at the University of Texas at Austin (Utah). He works on climate models and computer models of processes in the atmosphere including interactions with the biosphere, global climate change, the carbon cycle on land, remote sensing, and the disappearance of tropical rain forests.
From 2002 to 2004 he was president of the American Geophysical Union He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, whose Meisinger Award he received in 1973.
Membership
National Academy of Sciences]
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (National Academy of Sciences, USA) (1988), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and the National Academy of Engineering (National Academy of Engineering) (2002). In 2006 he became a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an honorary member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Geosciences Union (EGU).