Timothy Haskell

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Timothy Haskell
NZAM
Tim Haskell wins Thomson Medal at 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa (cropped).jpg
Haskell in 2019
Alma materBSc University of Canterbury
PhD University of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Thesis
Doctoral advisor Brian Wybourne

Timothy George Haskell NZAM is a New Zealand scientist.

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Penguins at Camp Haskell

Career and impact

Haskell completed a PhD at the University of Canterbury in 1972 under the supervision of Brian Wybourne. [1] Haskell started his career at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of DSIR (New Zealand) and remained with them through its evolution to Industrial Research Limited (IRL). He shifted to Callaghan Innovation in 2012.

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Camp Haskell, McMurdo Sound, 2015.

He worked with Bill Robinson on the development and installation of earthquake base isolation foundations for Te Papa. However, he is best known for his development of "Camp Haskell" - a containerised facility for working on the Sea ice of McMurdo Sound. [2] He had equipment mounted on the Erebus Glacier Tongue when it calved in 1990. [3] He had just finished a field trip to the glacier in 2010 when it next calved. [4]

He worked with Paul Callaghan for a time, developing portable Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology. Initial application to the determination of sea ice heterogeneity [5] evolved to become a range of bench-top NMR devices developed by the spin-off company Magritek.

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Haskell Strait panorama

In 2009 the ocean passage between Ross Island and White Island (Ross Archipelago) was named Haskell Strait, Antarctica. [6]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Haskell, T. G. (1972). The group theory of the harmonic oscillator with applications in physics (PhD thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/8330 . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  2. ↑ Stevens C, Langhorne P, Robinson P 2018. K131 Antarctic sea ice science: A case study of infrastructure, strategies, and skills, New Zealand Science Review, 74, 66-72.
  3. ↑ Robinson, W. and Haskell, T.G., 1990. Calving of Erebus Glacier tongue. Nature, 346(6285), p.615.
  4. ↑ Stevens, C.L., Sirguey, P., Leonard, G.H. and Haskell, T.G., 2013. Brief Communication" The 2013 Erebus Glacier Tongue calving event". The Cryosphere, 7(5), pp.1333-1337.
  5. ↑ Callaghan, P.T., Eccles, C.D., Haskell, T.G., Langhorne, P.J. and Seymour, J.D., 1998. Earth's field NMR in Antarctica: a pulsed gradient spin echo NMR study of restricted diffusion in sea ice. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 133(1), pp.148-154.
  6. ↑ "Gazetteer - AADC". data.aad.gov.au. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "2019 Thomson Medal: Outstanding science and technology leadership in a diverse array of domains".
  8. ↑ "The New Zealand Antarctic Medal – Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". dpmc.govt.nz. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "New Zealand Association of Scientists - Marsden Medal". scientists.org.nz. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
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