User:Blueowl42/Larry Soderblom
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Laurence A. "Larry" Soderblom | |
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Born | 1944 |
Alma mater | New Mexico Tech, Caltech |
Awards | Whipple Award, G.K. Gilbert Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Planetary Science |
Institutions | USGS |
Thesis | The distribution and ages of regional lithologies in the lunar maria (1970) |
Doctoral advisor | Bruce Murray, Gene Shoemaker[1] |
Larry Soderblom (born 1944) is a geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey. He received bachelor's degrees in geology and physics from New Mexico Tech in 1966, and a PhD in Geophysics and Planetary Science from Caltech in 1970.[2]
He served as Deputy Imaging Team lead for the Voyager missions[3], as Co-Investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, and as an Interdisciplinary Scientist for the Cassini mission[4].
He acted as Vice Chair for the 2013 Planetary Science Decadal Survey published by the National Research Council.
He received the 2014 Whipple Award[5] and the 2000 G.K. Gilbert Award.
References
[edit]- ^ https://eos.org/agu-news/soderblom-receives-2014-whipple-award
- ^ http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/people/larry-soderblom
- ^ https://eos.org/agu-news/soderblom-receives-2014-whipple-award
- ^ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/team/
- ^ http://honors.agu.org/sfg-awardees/soderblom-receives-2014-whipple-award/