Jerry X. Mitrovica
Born1960
Melbourne, Australia
EducationUniversity of Toronto (B.A.Sc. (Hons.), 1983)
University of Toronto (M.Sc., 1985)
University of Toronto (PhD, 1991)

Jerry X. Mitrovica is the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.[1] He produced important early work showing that tectonic plates heave, tilt, and fall in addition to drifting across the surface of the planet. He is known for his work on modeling past and predicting future uneven rises and falls in sea level due to the interactions between melting ice caps, local gravitational forces, and plate tectonics, which yield what some might find to be counterintuitive results.

Awards

In 2000 he was a recipient of a Rutherford Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on polar wander. In 2015 he earned the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America. In 2019 he was awarded the so-called "Genius Grant", a MacArthur Fellowship. He also earned the Kirk Bryan Award for the article, "Sea-level history during the Last Interglacial complex on San Nicolas Island, California: implications for glacial isostatic adjustment processes, paleozoogeography and tectonics".[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Jerry X. Mitrovica; Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science". eps.harvard.edu. Harvard University. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Kirk Bryan Award". community.geosociety.org. Geological Society of America. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Harvard's Mitrovica awarded MacArthur 'genius grant'". news.harvard.edu. 25 September 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2021.
  4. ↑ http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/arthur-l-day-prize.html

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