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George Luther delivers Alison Inaugural Lecture Nov. 8
3:14 p.m., Oct. 26, 2006--George W. Luther III, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies and 2006 winner of UD's Francis Alison Award--the University's highest faculty honor--will present his Francis Alison Inaugural Lecture, “Environmental Chemistry: From the Depths of the Ocean to the Hotsprings of Yellowstone National Park (and a few places in between),” at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 8, in 104 Gore Hall. A member of the University faculty since 1986, Luther was named the Harrington Professor of Marine Studies in 2000. He has served as associate dean of the College of Marine Studies, has advised more than 30 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and has published more than 165 journal articles, reports and book chapters. Luther holds joint appointments in the departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Plant and Soil Sciences and is an honorary professor at the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences at Cardiff University in Wales. Luther is editor-in-chief of Aquatic Geochemistry, associate editor of the research journals Marine Chemistry and Geochemical Transactions and a member of the geochemical editorial board of John Wiley & Sons, a major scientific and technical publisher. He has been appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, a committee dedicated to fostering global interaction in the scientific research community. In 2003, Luther was one of the chief scientists representing the United States in a month-long international expedition funded by the National Science Foundation. He and his research team studied the unusual chemistry of the 700-mile-long, mile-deep Black Sea, of which nearly 90 percent is a zero-oxygen “dead zone” that supports only a few bacteria. UD's Board of Trustees established the Francis Alison Faculty Award in 1978 to recognize the scholarship, professional achievements and dedication of the faculty. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (302) 831-8741. |
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