Acceptance of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021
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Denton S. Ebel
Thank you, President Ghiorso, Dr. Weisberg, and members of the Mineralogical Society of America. I am humbled to join the array of distinguished recipients of the MSA Distinguished Public Service Medal, and I thank my colleagues who nominated me. I do indeed ask myself, “How did I get here?”
I was lucky to benefit from the influence of my father, Robert Henry Ebel, who had the distinction as a student of having Clifford Frondel step on his head in the Sterling Hill mine. He was a collector and taught me about minerals, schists, gneisses, and granites while emphasizing the importance of the core disciplines of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.
I have benefitted from a succession of excellent mentors in speaking, writing, mineralogy, petrology, and thermodynamics, including some present today.
Serving in a major museum of natural history has provided me with extraordinary opportunities to educate the public through public programs, exhibitions like our Ross Hall of Meteorites, and the curation of a Hayden Planetarium space show.
The Museum has been the right place at a good time to play supporting and now lead roles in educating future scientists through NSF’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program and future Earth Science teachers through the Museum’s Master of Arts in Teaching program, in particular our research Practicum. For both opportunities, I have to thank many colleagues, in particular the late curator Jim Webster.
Denton S. Ebel, Photo credit: R. Mickens, AMNH
I look forward to continuing scientific investigation of mineral thermodynamics, education of the next generation of scientists and teachers of science, and now more than ever, the intelligent use of natural resources, following the guidance engraved on the obverse side of this wonderful medal. Thank you all.
© 2022 Mineralogical Society of America
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Ab initio study of the structure and relative stability of MgSiO4H2 polymorphs at high pressures and temperatures
- Thermal conductivity of single-crystal brucite at high pressures: Implications for thermal anomaly in the shallow lower mantle
- Magmatic volatiles and platinum-group element mineralization in the Stillwater layered intrusion, U.S.A
- Impact of fluorine on the thermal stability of phlogopite
- Ferrous hydroxychlorides hibbingite [γ-Fe2(OH)3Cl] and parahibbingite [β-Fe2(OH)3Cl] as a concealed sink of Cl and H2O in ultrabasic and granitic systems
- Chukochenite, (Li0.5Al0.5)Al2O4, a new lithium oxyspinel mineral from the Xianghualing skarn, Hunan Province, China
- Ground-truthing the pyrite trace element proxy in modern euxinic settings
- Interplay between fluid circulation and Alpine metamorphism in the Monte Rosa whiteschist from white mica and quartz in situ oxygen isotope analysis by SIMS
- Atomic-scale structure and non-stoichiometry of meteoritic hibonite: A transmission electron microscope study
- Synthesis, structure, and single-crystal elasticity of Al-bearing superhydrous phase B
- Specific roles of sodium for the formation process of manganese-substituted octacalcium phosphate
- Oxygen isotope heterogeneity of olivine crystals in orogenic peridotites from Songshugou, North Qinling Orogen: Petrogenesis and geodynamic implications
- Effects of arsenic on the distribution and mode of occurrence of gold during fluid-pyrite interaction: A case study of pyrite from the Qiucun gold deposit, China
- Xuite, Ca3Fe2[(Al,Fe)O3(OH)]3, a new mineral of the garnet group: Implications for the wide occurrence of nanominerals
- Raman spectroscopy-based screening of zircon for reliable water content and oxygen isotope measurements
- Halogen (F, Cl, Br, I) contents in silt and clay fractions of a Cambisol from a temperate forest
- Resolving sub-micrometer-scale zonation of trace elements in quartz using TOF-SIMS
- Hexagonal magnetite in Algoma-type banded iron formations of the ca. 2.52 Ga Baizhiyan Formation, North China: Evidence for a green rust precursor?
- Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021 to Sergey Krivovichev
- Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021
- Presentation of the 2021 MSA Distinguished Public Service Medal to Denton Ebel
- Acceptance of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021
- Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2021 to Chenguang Sun
- Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2021
- Presentation of the 2021 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to George Rossman
- Acceptance of the 2021 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Ab initio study of the structure and relative stability of MgSiO4H2 polymorphs at high pressures and temperatures
- Thermal conductivity of single-crystal brucite at high pressures: Implications for thermal anomaly in the shallow lower mantle
- Magmatic volatiles and platinum-group element mineralization in the Stillwater layered intrusion, U.S.A
- Impact of fluorine on the thermal stability of phlogopite
- Ferrous hydroxychlorides hibbingite [γ-Fe2(OH)3Cl] and parahibbingite [β-Fe2(OH)3Cl] as a concealed sink of Cl and H2O in ultrabasic and granitic systems
- Chukochenite, (Li0.5Al0.5)Al2O4, a new lithium oxyspinel mineral from the Xianghualing skarn, Hunan Province, China
- Ground-truthing the pyrite trace element proxy in modern euxinic settings
- Interplay between fluid circulation and Alpine metamorphism in the Monte Rosa whiteschist from white mica and quartz in situ oxygen isotope analysis by SIMS
- Atomic-scale structure and non-stoichiometry of meteoritic hibonite: A transmission electron microscope study
- Synthesis, structure, and single-crystal elasticity of Al-bearing superhydrous phase B
- Specific roles of sodium for the formation process of manganese-substituted octacalcium phosphate
- Oxygen isotope heterogeneity of olivine crystals in orogenic peridotites from Songshugou, North Qinling Orogen: Petrogenesis and geodynamic implications
- Effects of arsenic on the distribution and mode of occurrence of gold during fluid-pyrite interaction: A case study of pyrite from the Qiucun gold deposit, China
- Xuite, Ca3Fe2[(Al,Fe)O3(OH)]3, a new mineral of the garnet group: Implications for the wide occurrence of nanominerals
- Raman spectroscopy-based screening of zircon for reliable water content and oxygen isotope measurements
- Halogen (F, Cl, Br, I) contents in silt and clay fractions of a Cambisol from a temperate forest
- Resolving sub-micrometer-scale zonation of trace elements in quartz using TOF-SIMS
- Hexagonal magnetite in Algoma-type banded iron formations of the ca. 2.52 Ga Baizhiyan Formation, North China: Evidence for a green rust precursor?
- Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021 to Sergey Krivovichev
- Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021
- Presentation of the 2021 MSA Distinguished Public Service Medal to Denton Ebel
- Acceptance of the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2021
- Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2021 to Chenguang Sun
- Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2021
- Presentation of the 2021 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America to George Rossman
- Acceptance of the 2021 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America
