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Hisashi Kuno Award
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2023 RECIPIENT
C. Brenhin Keller
Prof. Brenhin Keller is an exceptionally innovative scientist with an extraordinary record of contributions to understanding Earth evolution. He is the leading figure of his generation in understanding the coevolution of continental crust with biolog...
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2022 RECIPIENT
Andrea Mundl-Petermeier
Dr. Andrea Mundl-Petermeier is recognized with the 2022 Hisashi Kuno Award for incredibly exacting analytical work that was used to extract evidence, using a radioactive isotope that has been extinct for about 4.5 billion years, on the current chemic...
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2021 RECIPIENT
Ming Tang
2020 RECIPIENT
Claire E Bucholz
2019 RECIPIENT
Marion Garcon
Marion Garçon, starting with her Ph.D. thesis, has made seminal and definitive contributions to geochemistry. Her thesis was a milestone in our understanding of the so-called “zircon effect” in sediments. This effect causes the Lu/...
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2019 RECIPIENT
Daniel A Stolper
It is my pleasure to introduce Daniel Stolper, recipient of the 2019 Kuno Award. This award is given in honor of Hisashi Kuno, who was instrumental in our understanding of subduction zone magmatism, worked with Harry Hess in the years leading to the ...
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2018 RECIPIENT
Leif Karlstrom
Leif is a creative young professor at the University of Oregon whose broad research interests span many of the most fundamental questions in volcanology. Leif uniquely blends theory and modeling with observational constraints, using process-based sim...
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2017 RECIPIENT
Matthew Steele-MacInnis
It is my pleasure and honor to introduce Matt Steele-MacInnis, recipient of the Hisashi Kuno Award for 2017. It is appropriate for Matt to be recognized by the VGP section of AGU, as he has made significant contributions in volcanology, geochemistry,...
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