Dr. Navrotsky Selected As The 2006 Harry H. Hess Medalist

December 21 , 2005

Alexandra Navrotsky , Director of NEAT ORU at UC Davis, has been selected as the 2006 Harry H. Hess Medalist. "This medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in research of the constitution and evolution of Earth and other planets." The presentation of the of the medal will be made at the 2006 AGU Fall (December 11 through December 15, 2005)meeting to be held in San Francisco, Ca.

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The following is taken from the AGU webpage at http://www.agu.org/inside/honors.html

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Harry H. Hess Medal

President of the Geodesy Section from 1950 to 1953 and the Tectonophysics Section from 1956 to 1959, Harry H. Hess made many contributions to geology, mineralogy, and geophysics. The medal named for him was established in 1984 to honor outstanding achievements in research of the constitution and evolution of Earth and sister planets. Gerald J. Wasserburg was the first recipient of the Hess Medal, which is given not more often than annually. Harry H. Hess, who was Professor of Geology at Princeton University for more than 30 years, made major contributions to the study of the oceanic lithosphere, including the concept that convectioncells in the mantle were the driving force for seafloor spreading. Hess discovered and explained the formation of flat-topped seamounts (guyots); performed seafloor gravity studies while submerged aboard U.S. Navy submarines; conducted detailed mineralogic and petrologic studies of peridotites; and was an originator of scientific ocean drilling by the Mohole Project.

Past recipients of the The Harry H. Hess Medal include:

1985 Gerald J. Wasserburg
1987 Julian R. Goldsmith
1989 A.G.W. Cameron
1991 George W. Wetherill
1993 Alfred E. Ringwood
1995 Edward Anders
1996 Thomas J. Ahrens
1997 Stanley Hart
1998 David J. Stevenson
1999 Ikuo Kushiro
2001 Albrecht W. Hofmann
2002 Gerald Schubert
2003 David L. Kohlstedt
2004 Adolphe Nicolas
2005 Sean C. Solomon

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