SECTION AWARDS AND LECTURES
Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture
Congratulations 2023 Section Award and Lecture Honorees!
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2023 RECIPIENT
Kari M Cooper

Prof. Kari Cooper has published a sustained series of papers that use U-series isotopes to establish the timescales of magmatic processes during crustal magma storage. These advances embody everything the Bowen ...

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2023 RECIPIENT
Yuji Sano

Yuji Sano has made fundamental contributions to isotope geochemistry, volcanology...

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2022 RECIPIENT
Peter Ulmer

It is an honor to introduce Peter Ulmer, one of the winners of the 2022 Norman L. Bowen Award of the AGU Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology section. Peter’s breadth of approaches spans experimental petrology, field geology, and magma rheo...

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Michael J Walter

Mike Walter is an experimental petrologist who, like Bowen, asks major questions about Earth. His career began with the resolution of a large number of questions surrounding the compositions of melts and residue produced during partial melting ...

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2021 RECIPIENT
George W Bergantz
2021 RECIPIENT
Catherine Chauvel
2020 RECIPIENT
Bradley R Hacker
2019 RECIPIENT
D. Graham Pearson

Graham Pearson merits the 2019 Norman L. Bowen Award for adding to our fundamental understanding of igneous processes in the upper mantle through studies of volcanic rocks, exhumed mantle sections, subcontinental mantle samples, and diamonds and t...

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