Professor emeritus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences
Weather
Expertise: Lightning, space plasma
Robert Holzworth is an experimental atmospheric and space physicist who studies the influence of lightning and other phenomena on the upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere.
He also directs the UW-based Worldwide Lightning Location Network, which locates over 200 million lightning strikes around the globe in real time every year.
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