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6 unusual facts about American Geophysical Union


David J. Thomson

He holds memberships in the Royal Statistical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada and the American Geophysical Union, and in 2009 received a Killam Research Fellowship (administered through the Canada Council for the Arts).

François Frenkiel

He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Keith Runcorn

Runcorn received many honours, including Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1965, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Fleming medal of the American Geophysical Union.

Surveys of scientists' views on climate change

The scientists polled were members of the American Geophysical Union or the American Meteorological Society and listed in the 23rd edition of American Men and Women of Science, a biographical reference work on leading American scientists.

In 2007, Harris Interactive surveyed 489 randomly selected members of either the American Meteorological Society or the American Geophysical Union for the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) at George Mason University.

A Gallup poll of 400 members of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society along with an analysis of reporting on global warming by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a report on which was issued in 1992.


Cairns Glacier

The feature was named by US-ACAN (2006) after Stephen Douglas Cairns, research zoologist, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 1985-2006; Board of Associated Editors, Antarctic Research Series, American Geophysical Union, 1990-95.

Charles G. Groat

Among his many professional affiliations, Groat is a member of the Geological Society of America, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Helmut Landsberg

Among his notable honors were the William Bowie Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1978), the Outstanding Achievement in Bioclimatology Award (1983) and the Cleveland Abbey Award (1983) of the American Meteorological Society, and the National Medal of Science (1985), presented to him by US President Ronald Reagan.

Lianxing Wen

He is a recipient of the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and a fellow of the Union, a designation conferred upon not more than 0.1% of all AGU members in any given year.

Richard C. Aster

Dr. Aster is a member of the Seismological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, and other Earth science societies and organizations.

Ronald Greeley

Greeley received a number of awards and honors during his career, including the G. K. Gilbert Award presented by the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America in 1997, and being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2007 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.

Rosaly Lopes-Gautier

Her past committee experience includes the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council’s Space Studies Board Committee to study the next announcement of opportunity (AO) for NASA’s New Frontiers missions (2007–2008), the JPL Director's Advisory Committee for Women, the Committee for Minorities and Women in Geosciences of the Geological Society of America and the Subcommittee on Diversity at the American Geophysical Union.

Ross Stein

Stein is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Geological Society of America, edited the Journal of Geophysical Research during 1986-1989 and chaired AGU’s Board of Journal Editors in 2004-2006.

Thomas A. Smith

He is also an active member of the Houston Geologic Society, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Seismological Society of America and the American Geophysical Union.


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