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CIN-TY LEE Receives Donath Medal |
The Donath Medal is awarded by the Geological Society of America to a young scientist (35 or younger) for outstanding achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original research that marks a major advance in the Earth sciences. This year’s recipient, Cin-Ty Lee (Rice University), is making a major impact in our understanding of how the Earth works. He has written on topics as diverse as the origin and evolution of the continents; the oxygen fugacity of the mantle through time, the chemical fluxes between the solid Earth, hydrosphere, and atmosphere, soil development in tropical weathering environments, the thermodynamics of trace element partitioning in the mantle and even the detection of nucleosynthetic processes through the analysis of meteorites. Cin-Ty took up a faculty position at Rice University in 2002, where he has become an outstanding mentor for young scientists. He has received recognition for his creativity in the form of a Packard Fellowship, was chosen for the inaugural Kuno Award of the AGU’s Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology Section, and was this year’s Clarke Medalist of the Geochemical Society. The original announcement was posted in http://dco.ciw.edu/events/upcoming-events |
消息来源 www.elementsmagazine.org 1/12/2010 |