Bowen Award Research Articles

Pearson and Reid Receive 2019 Norman L. Bowen Awards

Graham Pearson and Mary R. Reid received the 2019 Norman L. Bowen Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to the fields of volcanology, geochemistry, and petrology.”

Druitt and Goldstein Receive 2018 Norman�L. Bowen Award

Tim Druitt and Steven Goldstein will receive the 2018 Norman L. Bowen Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2018, to be held 10–14 December in Washington, D. C. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Manning and Marty Receive 2017 Norman L. Bowen Award

Craig Manning and Bernard Marty will receive the 2017 Norman L. Bowen Award at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 11–15 December in New Orleans, La. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Canil and Elliott Receive 2016 N. L. Bowen Award

Dante Canil and Tim Elliott will receive the 2016 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2016 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 12–16 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology."

Sisson Receives 2015 N. L. Bowen Award

Thomas Sisson will receive the 2015 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2015 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, to be held 14–18 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes "outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology."

Ghiorso and Sack Receive 2014 Norman L. Bowen Award

Mark Ghiorso and Richard O. Sack received 2014 Norman L. Bowen Awards at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, held 15–19 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.

Dingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Citation for Donald B. Dingwell

It is my privilege and honor to deliver the citation for Don Dingwell to receive AGU's N. L. Bowen Award. Don's research has profoundly influenced our understanding of the properties of silicate melts, glasses, and magmas and the fundamental control they exert on magmatic, volcanic, and, recently, even on earthquake processes. Don's approach is experimental, and his studies have interrogated melts, glasses, and magmas for their transport, calorimetric, geophysical, and rheological properties, as well as the solubilities of volatile species. These experiments have been elegantly designed to elucidate properties that provide quantitative explanations for volcanic processes. He has a prodigious publication record, including many seminal “must‐read papers,” as evidenced by any bibliometrics you choose. Indeed, his research has changed the very way we communicate about volcanic processes by expanding our vocabulary to include “glass transition” or “melt relaxation.” In many ways, his research career has established what is a new, unique, and expanding line of science—“experimental volcanology.”

Dingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Response

Thank you, Lionel, for your kind words. N. L. Bowen has been an inspiration to me since the first geology course that I took as an incoming freshman at Washington and Lee University. I had to take a science course for distribution requirements, and I discovered geology, where the laboratories were often outdoors and the Earth was your laboratory and inspiration! Geology seemed perfect for me: I could combine my love of the outdoors with an insatiable curiosity about what made things work. I was quickly overwhelmed, however, by the beauty and extreme diversity of rocks and minerals, so much so that it was beginning to seem like yet another foreign language to me. Then one day we discussed N. L. Bowen's reaction series, and it all immediately started to make sense to me. This inspired in me a “systems approach” to understanding complex geologic processes and problems. It also compelled me to try to quantify all of the observations that contributed to understanding geological processes.

Dingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Citation for James W. Head III

It is my pleasure to present James W. Head III of Brown University as a recipient of the 2013 Bowen Award. A major theme of Jim Head's research career has been the unraveling of the volcanic history of the rocky bodies of the solar system, and he has been an investigator on virtually all of the major international planetary investigation missions. Jim is an excellent observer and interpreter of observations. But more than that, as I have observed over our long history of collaboration, he shares the need to understand the basic physical processes controlling volcanism and to interpret observations in a quantitative, as well as qualitative, way. So in addition to documenting the history of volcanism on silicate planets, Jim has been at the forefront of trying to understand the mechanisms of volcanic eruption processes, on Earth as well as elsewhere.

Dingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Response

Thank you, Kelly!

Tatsumi Receives 2012 N. L. Bowen Award: Citation

Yoshiyuki Tatsumi received the 2012 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2012 AGU Fall Meeting, held 3–7 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Tatsumi Receives 2012 N. L. Bowen Award: Response

Thank you, Bob, for your kind words. I am most grateful to everyone involved in the nomination and evaluation processes, the VGP section, and AGU for affording me this much‐appreciated honor, the 2012 Bowen Award. Also, I would like to thank my seniors and many colleagues for sharing the fun of decoding how magmas form in the Earth's interior.

Profile of Roberta L. Rudnick

Plenty of mysteries lurk beneath the Earth’s surface. Roberta Rudnick, a Distinguished University Professor and chair of the department of geology at the University of Maryland (College Park, MD) and recently elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, has plumbed these depths. In her Inaugural Article, Rudnick presents a mass balance model for lithium isotopes, used to track chemical weathering on our planet’s surface (1). Roberta L. Rudnick. Her work has been honored with the Dana Medal from the Mineralogical Society of America and the N.L. Bowen Award from the American Geophysical Union. Rudnick is also a fellow of five scientific organizations as well as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Growing up in the Portland, OR, suburb of Tigard, Rudnick’s passion for science was cultivated by her high school science teacher who taught physics, astronomy, and geology. “I took all of those and I loved all of them,” she says. Rudnick’s love of the outdoors trumped her love of physics, however, and upon graduation she opted to major in geology at nearby Portland State University. It was the perfect time to be a geology student in Portland: Rudnick had a front-row seat to the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, just 50 miles away. “Groups of us had gone up there when it started erupting a little bit of ash,” she recalls. “One time we were up on the south side, and if it had gone off when we were up there, we would really have had an interesting time getting out. All of the roads we used were along the valleys where the mudflows went.” At Portland State, she met her future husband and lifelong scientific collaborator, William McDonough, now a professor …

Connolly and Hirschmann receive 2011 N. L. Bowen Awards: Citation for Marc M. Hirschmann

James A. Connolly and Marc M. Hirschmann received the 2011 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, held 5–9 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Connolly and Hirschmann receive 2011 N. L. Bowen Awards: Citation for James A. Connolly

James A. Connolly and Marc M. Hirschmann received the 2011 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, held 5–9 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Connolly and Hirschmann receive 2011 N. L. Bowen Awards: Response from James A. Connolly

James A. Connolly and Marc M. Hirschmann received the 2011 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, held 5–9 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Connolly and Hirschmann receive 2011 N. L. Bowen Awards: Response from Marc M. Hirschmann

James A. Connolly and Marc M. Hirschmann received the 2011 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, held 5–9 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Bowring and Keppler receive 2010 N. L. Bowen Awards: Citation

Samuel Bowring and Hans Keppler each received the 2010 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, held 13–17 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Bowring and Keppler receive 2010 N. L. Bowen Awards: Response

Samuel Bowring and Hans Keppler each received the 2010 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, held 13–17 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”

Bowring and Keppler receive 2010 N. L. Bowen Awards: Citation

Samuel Bowring and Hans Keppler each received the 2010 N. L. Bowen Award at the 2010 AGU Fall Meeting, held 13–17 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award recognizes “outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.”