 Yingwei Fei, Senior Staff Member at the Geophysical Laboratory, was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union on 22 January. The honor is given to those who have attained “acknowledged eminence in the Earth and space sciences.” Only one in each thousand members is elected to Fellowship each year.
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 James H. Scott, a former Associate Staff Member at the Geophysical Laboratory, died of an apparent heart attack at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on 11 January. He was 48 years old.
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 A former Geophysical Laboratory Fellow and current scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Jennifer Eigenbrode, has made a compelling breakthrough on how to identify large carbon molecules in the soil and trace evidence for life in extreme environments.
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 Changyong Park, formerly a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, joined the Geophysical Laboratory as Beamline Scientist of HPCAT.
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 Curtis Kenney-Benson, formerly a Research Engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joined the Geophysical Laboratory as Beamline Associate of HPCAT.
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 Wenge Yang, formerly a Beamline Scientist at HPCAT, was promoted to Co-Project Manager at the High Pressure Synergetic Consortium (HPSynC), a program at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) jointly run by the Geophysical Laboratory and APS.
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 Senior Staff Scientist Robert Hazen has received the 2009 Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA).
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 Malcolm Guthrie, formerly a staff scientist at the Advanced Photon Source (APS), Argonne National Laboratory, joined the Geophysical Laboratory on September 21 as a Research Scientist.
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 One of the award winning pumpkins from the 2009 Fall Picnic.
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 Connie Bertka joined the Geophysical Laboratory Sept. 1 as Program Director of the Sloan Deep Carbon Observatory.
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 Reinhard Boehler, formerly a Director of the Max Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, joined the Geophysical Laboratory August 17.
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 Marilyn Fogel, Staff Scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory, will join the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Division of Earth Sciences this autumn to pursue a one year position as Program Director in Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry.
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 The first International Mineralogical Society (IMA) medal was awarded to Charles T. Prewitt, Director Emeritus, in recognition of his invaluable lifelong contribution to mineral sciences, on June 24th at the Goldschmidt Conference in Switzerland.
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 Ronald Cohen of Carnegie’s Geophysical Laboratory received the 2009 Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America on June 24th at the Goldschmidt Conference in Switzerland.
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 Ikuo Kushiro, staff member during 1971-1981, was awarded the "Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star" ( Zuihōjukōshō) for public service by the Emperor during a ceremonies held in Tokyo on April 29, 2009.
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 The European Association for Geochemistry awarded the 2008 Urey medal to Pascal Richet.
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 We are pleased to report that Dr. Anat Shahar has been appointed to the Scientific Staff at the Geophysical Laboratory. Anat’s current research focuses on the use of stable isotopes to tackle questions ranging from the formation of the first solids in the Solar System to the cores of planets.
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 Wesley Huntress, director emeritus has been appointed by the National Research Council to the distinguished steering committee of the Solar System Exploration Decadal Survey.
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 On May 15th the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, Cristian Samper, awarded Andrew Steele the honorary title of Research Associate to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
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 NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center will honor a team of scientists including staff member, Andrew Steele and research technician, Lauren Kerr with the MSFC Technology Transfer Award.
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 Postdoctoral associate, Adrienne Kish presented Carnegie’s second 2009 Neighborhood lecture on Tuesday, May 19th.
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 Washington, D.C., 9 July 2008—Carnegie’s Russell Hemley, director of the institutio
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 Washington, D.C., 22 May 2008 — Carnegie Institution scientist Ho-kwang (Dave) Mao has
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Washington, DC—The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) announced March 4th that Russell Hemle
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 Hexiong Yang, former post-doctoral associate now at the University of Arizona, has
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 The Carnegie Institution held its annual Summer Scholars Research Symposium on Wednesday, August
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