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.

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Dan Vergano of USA Today, Michelle Nijhuis of High Country News, and the Times-Picayune (New Orleans) are receiving the American Geophysical Union's 2006 journalism awards.

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Ten professors and a staff scientist are being honored by the American Geophysical Society, which will present them with medals at a ceremony during the fall meeting in San Francisco in December.

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The American Geophysical Union has announced the recipients of two awards and a medal.

Robert H. Eather, owner and president of Keo Consultants in Brookline, Massachusetts, and a consultant, received the Athelstan Spilhaus Award "for developing low-light-level filming technology, carrying out on-site auroral filming, and, from these, producing text and media products on auroras and geospace that have reached, informed, and inspired millions of people worldwide." The award recognizes AGU members who have worked to express the excitement, significance, and beauty of the Earth and space sciences to the general public.

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