Dewey elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy

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.