Matt Dixon
Job Title: Senior Meteorologist
Office Phone: (859) 218-4363
Cell Phone: (812) 890-6176
Email: matt.dixon@uky.edu
Delegate Type:
Delegate
Institution:
University of Kentucky
State:
KY
Area of Specialty:
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Committee:
Agriculture, Annual Meeting
Agriculture, Annual Meeting
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.
