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Matt Dixon


Job Title:

Senior Meteorologist

Office Phone:

(859) 218-4363

Email:

matt.dixon@uky.edu

Institution:

State:

Delegate Type

Area of Specialty:

Agriculture and Natural Resources

FEMA Courses Completed:

Biography


Matt has been a Senior Meteorologist at the University of Kentucky Ag Weather Center since 2012. Working within the Cooperative Extension Service, the main goal of the Ag Weather Center is to minimize weather and climate-related surprise for Kentucky residents, with emphasis on the agriculture sector and production/management-related decisions. Before starting at UK in 2012, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in Atmospheric Sciences from Purdue University. He then went on to Mississippi State University, obtaining a master’s degree in Geosciences with concentration in Applied Meteorology.