{"id":62210,"date":"2011-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/american-geophysical-union-to-present-kuno-award-to-uri-oceanographer\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T00:00:00","slug":"american-geophysical-union-to-present-kuno-award-to-uri-oceanographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/07\/american-geophysical-union-to-present-kuno-award-to-uri-oceanographer\/","title":{"rendered":"American Geophysical Union to present Kuno Award to 溏心vlog免费B站 oceanographer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tAward recognizes top young scientists studying volcanology, geochemistry<\/p>\n


\n\tNARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 July 19, 2011 \u2013 Katherine Kelley, associate professor of oceanography at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Hisashi Kuno Award from the American Geophysical Union.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe award recognizes the scientific accomplishments of young scientists who make outstanding contributions to the fields of volcanology, geochemistry and petrology. The American Geophysical Union is the largest professional association of Earth and space scientists in the world.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt is wonderful news that Katie has been awarded AGU\u2019s Kuno Award but hardly surprising\u201c said David C. Smith, associate dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography. \u201cKatie has consistently made very substantial contributions to the field of high temperature geochemistry, an area in which GSO has a rich history. She has an international reputation as being both innovative and rigorous, and I see this as just the beginning of what is sure to be an award-winning career.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very surprised and deeply humbled by this honor from my scientific peers,\u201d said Kelley, a resident of Wakefield. \u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous sign of recognition for the quality of my work, and I couldn\u2019t be more pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tKelley\u2019s research is focused on developing an understanding of the origins of the different types of rocks on Earth. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cEarth is the only planet in our solar system that has continents, and the rocks that form the basis of our continents are different from those that form our ocean basins,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n


\n\tKelley has made several important discoveries about the evolution of Earth in the last two years. In 2009 she published a paper in the journal Science about her research finding that material from subduction zones \u2013 sites on the seafloor where tectonic plates have collided, forcing one plate beneath the other \u2013 are more oxidized than material from mid-ocean ridges where the plates are pulling apart. <\/p>\n


\n\tShe said that this discovery is important because the availability of oxygen to the mantle controls what minerals are found there, how certain elements behave, and what kind of gasses might be expelled from volcanoes.<\/p>\n


\n\tA follow-up study in 2010 resolved a long-standing debate among geologists about the movement of oxygen from the Earth\u2019s surface to its mantle and back again.<\/p>\n


\nAccording to Kelley, some scientists have argued that the availability of oxygen to the mantle hasn\u2019t changed since the Earth was formed. However, if plate tectonics carry this oxidized material into the mantle, as her research has demonstrated, then it is adding oxygen to the mantle. It also suggests that what takes place at the surface of the Earth probably influences what happens deep beneath the surface as well.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Hisashi Kuno Award will be presented to Kelley at the American Geophysical Union\u2019s fall meeting in San Francisco in December. The award is named for a former professor of petrology at the University of Tokyo who made groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of volcanic rocks and who served as a mentor to a number of outstanding students who went on to have distinguished careers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award recognizes top young scientists studying volcanology, geochemistry NARRAGANSETT, R.I. \u2013 July 19, 2011 \u2013 Katherine Kelley, associate professor of oceanography at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Graduate School of Oceanography, has been named the recipient of the 2011 Hisashi Kuno Award from the American Geophysical Union. The award recognizes the scientific accomplishments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}