Award
Pete Burnard Award
The "Pete Burnard Award" recognizes an early-career scientist (max 4 years after PhD), who has made a significant contribution to the analytical development and advancement of noble gas measurements. The award was established in honor of our dear friend and colleague Pete Burnard, who passed away too soon, in 2015.
The winners of the Pete Burnard award 2019 are Sandrine Péron and Alan Seltzer.
Sandrine Péron did her PhD at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) with Manuel Moreira. In order to study the neon and xenon isotopic composition of Earth's mantle with minimal atmospheric contamination, Sandrine further developed the laser ablation technique for the analysis of noble gases in individual vesicles in oceanic basalts. In addition, d she developed a long-term gas accumulation technique for heavy noble gases. Sandrine is now a postdoc at UC Davis.
Alan Seltzer did his PhD at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO, UC San Diego) with Jeff Severinghaus. Alan has developed a new method for high-precision isotope analysis of dissolved heavy noble gases in ground- and seawater in order to reconstruct water-table depth at the time of water recharge. This new tool has promising applications for paleoclimate, both as a means of quantifying past hydroclimatic change and adding to the existing paleotemperature application of noble gases in groundwater. Alan will start his postdoc at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in October.
The award panel, listed below, under the lead of Rainer Wieler, will attribute the 2nd "Pete Burnard Award" at DINGUE VI. You are encouraged to propose potential candidates, with a CV and a short description of their research (in total max. 2 pages), by 19 July 2019 (wieler at erdw.ethz.ch).
Please contact the award panel or the DINGUE organizing committee for any questions on how to nominate candidates.
Award panel: Rainer Wieler (ETH Zurich), Patricia Clay (The University of Manchester), Lorraine Ruzié-Hamilton (The University of Manchester), Sujoy Mukhopadhyay (UC Davis), Evelyn Füri (CRPG)
The "Pete Burnard Award" was first attributed to Julien Amalberti in 2017, at DINGUE V in Paris. Julien completed his PhD "Etude expérimental du dégazage volcanique" (Experimental study of volcanic degassing) in early 2015 at the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques (Nancy, France). He then continued his research on noble gases in snow at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan.
