The American Geophysical Union recognized the contribution of several members of the geophysics community at its annual fall meeting held last month in San Francisco.
The 2001 William Bowie Medal, AGU’s highest award, was presented to Dan McKenzie, Royal Society Professor of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. The society honored McKenzie for his “fundamental contributions to understanding plate tectonics and willingness to share his expertise with his colleagues to further this research.”
Richard G. Fairbanks was recognized with the 2001 Maurice Ewing Medal for his “distinguished contributions in the fields of paleoceanography, paleoclimatology, and marine geochemistry,” according to the medal citation. He is a professor of Earth and environmental science at Columbia University and a senior scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
The 2001 Harry H. Hess Medal went to Albrecht Hofmann, director of the geochemistry division at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Hofmann...
