John Wahr

John Matthew Wahr (June 22, 1951, Ann Arbor, Michigan – November 11, 2015, Boulder, Colorado) was an American geophysicist and geodesist, known for his research on Earth's rotation, Earth tides, ocean tides, post-glacial rebound, and other topics in the geosciences.

Biography Wahr grew up in Midland, Michigan. He graduated in 1973 from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in physics and mathematics. In September 1974 he married Ann Carol Brady. from 1992 to 2013 a full professor, and from 2013 until his death in 2015 a research professor in semi-retirement. was supervised by Martin L. Smith. and the mission TOPEX/Poseidon. He and his collaborators used satellite geodesy to investigate ice melting and mass losses in the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica and to determine distributions of ocean mass. Several of Wahr's papers have more than 400 citations. He was the author or coauthor of more than 170 scientific publications.

Wahr's doctoral students include Tonie van Dam.

Upon his death in 2015 from pancreatic cancer, he was survived by his widow Ann and their daughter and son.

Selected publications