Open AccessDingwell, Head Receive 2013 N. L. Bowen Award: Citation for James W. Head III
Author(s) -
Wilson Lionel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo360011
Subject(s) - volcanism , theme (computing) , planet , head (geology) , volcano , geology , history , paleontology , astronomy , physics , computer science , tectonics , operating system
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.