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Joseph Pedlosky was awarded the 2011 Maurice Ewing Medal at the AGU Fall Meeting Honors Ceremony, held on 7 December 2011 in San Francisco, Calif. The medal is for “significant original contributions to the scientific understanding of the processes in the ocean; for the advancement of oceanographic engineering, technology, and instrumentation; and for outstanding service to the marine sciences.”

Citation:

Joseph Pedlosky is a giant in physical oceanography. He has made fundamental contributions to the theories of ocean circulation and has defined the field of geophysical fluid dynamics. His contributions to the field are not just from his 150 papers. His shaping of the fields of geophysical fluid dynamics, ocean circulation theory, and waves and stability is holistically presented in his three textbooks. Pedlosky is... Read More »

Response:

I am deeply honored by the Maurice Ewing Medal. The vast scope of Maurice Ewing’s contributions can only make me feel humble in comparison.As always, I am grateful to my mentors: Jule Charney, Melvin Stern, Eric Mollø-­Christensen, and Harvey Greenspan. Some of them are, alas, now beyond my power to thank directly. My gratitude to my colleagues at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Chicago,... Read More »