Ten professors and a staff scientist are being honored by the American Geophysical Society, which will present them with medals at a ceremony during the fall meeting in San Francisco in December.
Carl Wunsch, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography in the Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences department at MIT, is being awarded the William Bowie Medal “for his wide-ranging research in the study of the ocean and its roles in shaping Earth’s climate and its changes, and for unselfish cooperation in the field of physical oceanography.”
E. Bruce Watson, Institute Professor of Science and professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, is receiving the Walter H. Bucher Medal “for fundamental contributions to understanding crustal processes through physical chemistry.”
The Maurice Ewing Medal is going to G. Michael Purdy, director of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory and professor...
