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UC San Diego geophysicist J. Freeman Gilbert was awarded the Geological Society of America’s Day Medal at the society’s annual meeting Oct. 28 for his “outstanding distinction and contribution to geologic knowledge” through the use of physics and chemistry to solve geologic problems.
Gilbert, who has been a professor of geophysics at UCSD’s Scripps Institute of Oceanography since 1961, deals with research in seismological problems, including earthquake source mechanisms, and is a director for a global network of seismic stations studying large-scale earth movements.
The Geological Society of America is a nonprofit organization of more than 15,000 earth scientists. The Day Medal is named in honor of geologist and chemist Arthur Louis Day, who died in 1960.
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