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Christian Schoof was awarded the 2011 James B. Macelwane Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 7 December 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for “significant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist.”

Citation:

Christian Schoof is a glaciologist with an impressive foundation in applied mathematics who has solved one of the most important and challenging problems of ice sheet dynamics. Words like “elegant” get debased by overuse, but Schoof’s astonishing work on ice sheet grounding line dynamics is both elegant and profoundly significant. The central issue is how the internal boundary between grounded ice sheets and floating ice... Read More »

Response:

Thank you, Garry. In response, I can only say that I have simply been very lucky. Glaciology has grown enormously in the past decade, and I would not be here were it not for the many people who have made it such a rich and rewarding field of study. Nor would I be here but for the people who have guided me personally along the... Read More »