AGU member John F. Dewey of the geology department at University of California, Davis, has been elected an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (15th March, 2008).
Dewey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and researches structural geology and tectonics from the small-scale materials science of deformed rocks to the large-scale origin of topography and structures.
His current research is on the rock fabrics and structures of transpression and transtension especially in California, New Zealand, Norway, Ireland and Newfoundland.
