Timothy Haskell

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Timothy George Haskell is a New Zealand scientist. He earned a BSc and a PhD from the University of Canterbury, completing his doctoral work in 1972 on the group theory of the harmonic oscillator under advisor Brian Wybourne. He started his career at the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of DSIR, which later became Industrial Research Limited, and then moved to Callaghan Innovation in 2012. He worked with Bill Robinson on earthquake base isolation foundations for Te Papa, and is best known for “Camp Haskell,” a containerised facility for studying the sea ice in McMurdo Sound. His equipment was mounted on the Erebus Glacier Tongue during its calving in 1990, and he had just finished a field trip there before the next calving in 2010. He also collaborated with Paul Callaghan on portable NMR technology, which evolved into bench-top NMR devices made by the Magritek spin-off. In 2009, the ocean passage between Ross Island and White Island was named Haskell Strait in his honor.