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Dr Andrew Steele, neighborhood lecture speaker in May

smysen — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:28:36 -0400

Dr, Andrew Steele will deliver the introduction to a television documentary about the Arctic Mars Analogue Svalbard Expedition (AMASE). more »

Carnegie’s Bjørn Mysen Named Geochemical Fellow by Geochemical Society

smysen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:28:48 -0400

Washington, DC. 21 April 2008 – The Geochemical Society and the European Association for Geochemistry has announced that Bjørn Mysen, senior scientist at Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory is one of seven scientists named a Geochemical Fellow for 2008. The honorary title is “bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry.”

Bjørn Mysen's research has focused on a broad array of experimental high-temperature and pressure studies of rock-forming processes. He looks at properties and processes of minerals and melts to understand the physicochemical principles that govern mass and energy transfer in the interior of the Earth.

Carnegie president Richard Meserve remarked that “Mysen has significantly advanced our knowledge of silicate melts and glasses and we can use that information to understand rock-forming processes on and within the Earth. This fundamental work has also impacted the glass and ceramic science.”

Director of the laboratory, Russell Hemley said, “This honor is well deserved and follows a rich tradition of excellence in this field since the founding of the Geophysical Laboratory.”

Bjørn Mysen received his bachelors of science from the University of Oslo, Norway, in 1969 and his masters there in 1971. He then went to Pennsylvania State University where he received his Ph.D. in 1974. After threeyears as a Carnegie Corporation Fellow at the Geophysical Laboratory, he joined the senior staff in 1977. Mysen is a member of The Royal Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a Thomson Research/ISI Highly Cited Researcher since 2001. He received the F. W. Clarke Award from the Geochemical Society of America, the Reusch Medal from the Norwegian Geological Society, and the Morey Award from American Ceramic Society, an award named for George Morey, an early Geophysical Laboratory staff member who made fundamental discoveries in glass science and thermodynamics. Mysen is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society. He is currently an associate editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and American Mineralogist. He has edited five books, written two books, and about 270 peer-reviewed papers.

To date there are 164 Geochemical Fellows, nine such Fellows are, or have been, at the Geophysical Laboratory: more »

Ronald Cohen gave the Neighborhood Lecture on Ferroelectrics on April 8

smysen — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:29:46 -0400

On Tuesday, April 8, CDAC-affiliated Carnegie staff member Ronald Cohen presented a public lecture entitled, "Ferroelectrics: Materials That Do Things, From Medical Ultrasound to Green Energy," at Carnegie's Broad Branch Road campus in Washington, DC. The lecture was the latest in Carnegie's series of Neighborhood Lectures. more »

Carnegie’s Russell Hemley Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

smysen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:01:38 -0500

Washington, DC—The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) announced March 4th that Russell Hemley, director of Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory, has been elected to Corresponding Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh—Scotland’s national academy of science and letters. He joins such luminaries as Charles Darwin, Niels Bohr, Francis Crick, and James Watson. more »

New mineral to be named "Hazenite" after Robert Hazen

smysen — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:19:49 -0500

Hexiong Yang, former post-doctoral associate now at the University of Arizona, has received official approval today from the International Mineralogical Association's Commission on New Mineral Names to name a new mineral "hazenite" (species 2007-061) after Robert M. Hazen. The new mineral is a hydrous alkali magnesium phosphate that is precipitated by microbes in Mono Lake, a highly alkaline lake in California. more »

Dirty space and supernovae

smysen — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:33:53 -0500

Washington, DC, 28 Feb. 2008 — Interstellar space may be strewn with tiny whiskers of carbon, dimming the light of far-away objects. This discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution may have implications for the “dark energy” hypothesis, proposed a decade ago in part to explain the unexpected dimness of certain stellar explosions called Type1a supernovae. more »

Christos Hadidiacos, Carnegie Institution Service to Science Awardee

smysen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:28:35 -0500

I am pleased to announce that Mr. Christos Hadidiacos of the Geophysical Laboratory has been selected as the first recipient of the Carnegie Institution’s new Service to Science Award. more »

Two GL scientists and nine alumni on the "Highly Cited" list of Thomson Scientific

smysen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:02:12 -0500

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There are 338 scientists named in the Thomson Scientific ISI's "Highly Cited" list in the field of geosciences. We are honored to have two of our scientists on this list: more »

Ron Cohen Featured in Nature's "Making the Paper"

smysen — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:02:41 -0500

Ronald Cohen was featured in the "Making the Paper" segment of January 31st issue of Nature.

Magnetism loses under pressure

smysen — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:19:52 -0500

Washington, D.C. — Scientists have discovered that the magnetic strength of magnetite—the most abundant magnetic mineral on Earth—declines drastically when put under pressure. more »