Michael Purdy Honored in San Fransico
Mar 2007 - Issue 196
G. Michael Purdy, director of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, received the 2006 Maurice Ewing Medal at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco on December 13, 2006.
Honored for his more than 30-year commitment as a researcher, administrator and innovator in the earth sciences, the award recognizes Purdy's "significant and original contributions to our understanding of oceanic crustal structure and as a developer of new geophysical instrumentation for use in the deep sea."
The Ewing Medal was established in 1974 and is named after the founding director of Lamont-Doherty, William Maurice "Doc" Ewing.