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People in the News PEOPLE IN THE NEWS PENROSE MEDAL TO SUSAN KIEFFER Peter Kelemen is the Arthur D. Storke Professor Dr. Susan Kieffer will receive the Penrose and Chair of the Department of Earth & Medal of the Geological Society of America Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. (GSA). The Penrose Medal is awarded in rec- He combines geochemical and geophysical tech- ognition of eminent research in pure geology, niques to study Earth processes. He is working for outstanding original contributions or on the genesis and evolution of oceanic and achievements that mark a major advance in continental crust, subduction zone processes, the science of geology. Dr. Kieffer is the new mechanisms for earthquake initiation, geo- Walgreen Endowed Chair and Center for logic capture and storage of CO2 (CCS), and Advanced Study Professor of Geology and reaction-driven cracking processes in natural Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We repro- and engineered settings, with application to CCS, geothermal power duce here excerpts of the citation by Steve Marshak: generation, hydrocarbon extraction, and in situ mining. At Columbia, he teaches the popular course Earth Resources for Sustainable “Susan Werner Kieffer’s career in geology has spanned 45 years—so Development, as well as courses and seminars on petrology and geo- far. In this time, she has led an amazing journey through the breadth chemistry. Kelemen was a founding partner of Dihedral Exploration of the discipline, a journey that has yielded profound insight into an (1980–1992), consultants specializing in exploration for mineral incredible diversity of subjects, including mineral thermodynamics, deposits in steep terrain, with contracts in Canada, Alaska, and meteorite impacts, explosive eruptions of geysers and volcanoes, and Greenland. Research and climbing have taken him to Peru, India, the hydraulics of rapids. Her work creatively combines calculations Oman, the Aleutian Islands, 7500 meters above sea level in Pakistan, with observations.” and 5500 meters below sea level via submersibles along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. “What theme ties Sue’s scientifi c contributions together? They involve fast fl ows and intense shocks. While most geologists ponder events Thorne Lay is a Distinguished Professor of that take thousands to millions of years, Sue focuses on those that Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University happen in seconds to minutes. What makes Sue’s work great is that she of California Santa Cruz, where he has been takes foundational concepts—such as how atoms vibrate in a mineral located since 1990. Previously he was a fac- lattice or how supersonic gases blast from a rocket nozzle—and makes ulty member at the University of Michigan, them geological.” after receiving his PhD in geophysics from the California Institute of Technology in “Sue’s fundamental contributions have been recognized by many 1983. His research area is seismology, and honors, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences includes studies of large earthquake ruptures, and the American Philosophical Society, a MacArthur “genius award,” the internal structure of the Earth, and seismic monitoring of nuclear- and the Day Medal of GSA. It is more than appropriate that her many testing treaties. He is the author of 411 research publications, including original advances to our understanding of geology—from the micro- 5 books, 286 publications in refereed books and professional journals, scopic to the megascopic scale—has now resulted in her receipt of the and 120 technical reports, book reviews, news items, and conference 2014 Penrose Medal.” proceedings. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of NEW MEMBERS ELECTED TO THE U.S. NATIONAL Sciences. He received the Harry Fielding Reid Medal of the Seismological ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Society of America and the Macelwane Medal of the American Four prominent members of our community recently became members Geophysical Union. of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. They were among the 84 new Édouard G. Bard, professor, Collège de France, members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries recognized for Aix-en-Provence, France, was elected as a foreign their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. associate. He earned his master’s degree in 1985 Membership is a widely accepted mark of excellence and is considered at the geological engineering school at Nancy one of the highest honors a scientist can receive. (ENSG) and his doctoral degree in 1987 at the Timothy L. Grove is the Cecil & Ida Green University of Paris 11–Orsay. He conducted Professor of Geology and associate department research in Columbia University's Lamont head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, Doherty Earth Observatory as a postdoctoral and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of fellow in 1988 and as an associate research scien- Technology, Cambridge. Grove’s research focuses tist in 1989. He then returned to France, where on the processes that have led to the chemical dif- he joined the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA), and then ferentiation of the crust and mantle of the Earth started teaching as a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1991 and on the processes of formation and evolution and at the Collège de France in 2001. His studies are at the interface of the interiors of other planets, including the of climatology, oceanography, and geology. His main objective is to Moon, Mars, and meteorite parent bodies. understand the natural functioning of the ocean–atmosphere system Combining geology, geophysics, and geochemistry to interpret the on timescales ranging from a few decades to several million years. thermal histories of geologic materials, his group studies magma-gen- Indeed, climate variations involve mechanisms with very different time eration processes, crystal growth and nucleation, phase transitions in constants. It is thus necessary to have a long-term perspective in order minerals, diffusion in crystalline solids and silicate melts, and the time to distinguish the respective impacts of geological, astronomical, and dependence of diffusion-controlled processes. He holds a PhD from anthropogenic forcings. Harvard (1976) and has been a professor at MIT since 1979. He is a In 2013, he received the Alfred Wegener Medal from the European member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Geosciences Union and the Werner Petersen Award from the Helmholtz Mineralogical Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, Center for Ocean Research (GEOMAR Kiel). In 2014, he also received and the Geochemical Society, and is the recipient of the 2014 the Prince Albert I Medal of the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco. Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society. He was president of the American Geophysical Union from 2008 to 2010. 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