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Member Since 1985
Paul Wessel
Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professional Experience
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Professor Emeritus
1989 - Present
Education
Columbia University of New York City
Doctorate
1989
University of Oslo
Masters
1984
University of Oslo
Bachelors
1982
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Honors & Awards
Greg Leptoukh Lecture
Received December 2022
Union Fellow
Received January 2012
Citation
For his monumental and pioneering work in lithosphere dynamics, hotspots and plate tectonics, and geophysical data analysis.
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Publications
The Generic Mapping Tools and Animations for the Masses
Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) is a well‐known set of software originally developed for geosciences, allowing scientists in climate and solid ea...
June 16, 2024
Global Distribution and Morphology of Small Seamounts
April 06, 2023
Analysis of Pacific Hotspot Chains
May 16, 2022
Improved Bathymetric Prediction Using Geological Information...
February 03, 2022
Assessing Models for Pacific Absolute Plate and Plume Motion...
December 10, 2019
AGU Abstracts
Morphologic Models for the Growth and Decay of Volcanic Seamounts
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Paul Wessel, Anthony B. Watts, Seung-Sep Kim, Davi...
Volcanic seamounts are among the most ubiquitous landforms on Earth. They are created near mid-ocean spreading ridge crests and are found in transform...
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Global Distribution of Small Seamounts from Satellite Gravity and Ship Soundings
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
David T. Sandwell, Julie Gevorgian, Yao Yu, Hugh H...
Vertical Gravity Gradient (VGG) maps of the oceans have improved dramatically due to new data collected by the SARAL/Altika and CryoSat-2 radar altime...
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The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: The Collapse of the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Chain
SEAMOUNTS FROM BIRTH TO DEATH I ORAL
tectonophysics | 14 december 2022
Brian Boston, Phil Cilli, Donna J. Shillington, An...
The Hawaiian-Emperor seamount chain is one of the most prominent seamount chains on Earth, spanning ~6,000 km, and home to some of the largest landsli...
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Volunteer Experience
2023 - 2024
Member
Informatics Leptoukh Lecture Award Committee
2017 - 2018
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
2016 - 2018
Member
Tectonophysics Fellows Committee
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