Professor Harry Elderfield: Goldschmidt award

The Geochemical Society has announced that the 2013 V.M. Goldschmidt Award, the premier medal of the Society, is awarded to Professor Harry Elderfield of the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University.

The Goldschmidt Award recognizes major achievements in geochemistry or cosmochemistry consisting of either a single outstanding contribution or a series of publications that have had great influence on the field. Professor Elderfield is acknowledged for his wide-ranging contributions to marine geochemistry and paleoclimatology including his landmark paper on Mg/Ca thermometry of foraminifera and contributions to our understanding of the genesis of manganese nodules and the use of trace elements as tracers of ocean dynamics. Prof. Elderfield is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Geochemical Society, EAG, and the AGU. He is a past winner of the Patterson Award of the Geochemical Society and the Urey Medal of the EAG.