EAS News Article
The EAS Department Welcomes Jay Melosh as a Distinguished
Professor
Melosh will join Purdue's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences on Aug. 17. He's now a regents professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Melosh's principal research interests are the ramifications of impact cratering, planetary tectonics, and the physics of earthquakes and landslides. He also is active in astrobiological studies that relate mainly to the exchange of microorganisms between the terrestrial planets.
Melosh has received numerous awards for his research, including the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society, the Gilbert Award of the Geological Society of America and the Hess Medal of the American Geophysical Union. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and several other prominent national and international panels and committees, Melosh recently was a consultant to the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History.
Source:Purdue News Service, 2009
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