Abstract
Dear SEG friends and guests: Every now and then a university professor has the good fortune to work with an exceptional student. I am such a professor and the exceptional student in the mid- to late 1980s was Mark Hannington, this year’s SEG Silver Medalist. I somehow convinced Mark to come to Toronto for graduate studies (actually, I bribed him by offering submersible dives). Mark was a member of a small team I had put together to explore the deep sea floor for hydrothermal sulfide deposits as natural laboratories for better understanding volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VMS) ores that formed on ancient sea beds and are now on land. I supervised Mark’s M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses but use the word “supervised” lightly because Mark was a self-starter. He knew what needed to be done, figured out how to do it, and got on with the task at hand. In addition, he was an unusually talented writer, a skill that would serve him well for what was to come in his career. While at Toronto, Mark collaborated with Peter Herzig. Peter, a cosponsor of Mark’s Silver Medal nomination, was one of my postdocs and is now the director of IFM-GEO-MAR, the large German oceanographic institute in Kiel. Putting Mark and Peter together was one of the best decisions of my academic life because they did exceptional research and have …
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