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Tom Simkin memorial at AGU meeting--Thursday 18:00-20:00 (Moscone ctr. S, Esplanade 302)
From: "Richard Wunderman" <WUNDERMA@xxxxxx>
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Tom Simkin Memorial
18:00-20:00, Thursday 17 December at Moscone Center South, Room Esplanade 302
(Not at the Marriott Marquis as listed in the AGU program)
A reception held for friends and colleagues to celebrate the life and contributions of Tom Simkin (1933-2009). Tom Simkin's distinguished career in volcanology at the Smithsonian spanned more than four decades. He was a pioneer in the investigation of volcanism on a global scale, and was the founder and director of the Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) until 1995. The twin pillars of the GVP lay in both documenting current volcanic activity and unrest and in developing a database of volcanoes and their eruptions during the past 10,000 years (www.volcano.si.edu ). He also led efforts resulting in three editions of the popular map of the Earth, This Dynamic Planet, in collaboration with colleagues from the USGS and the Naval Research Lab. The latest edition in 2006 can also be found online (mineralsciences.si.edu/tdpmap/).
Contact Paul Kimberly for questions regarding the reception (kimberlyp@xxxxxx<mailto:kimberlyp@xxxxxx>). Tom's wife, Sharon, will attend the reception and be in San Francisco the week of AGU (simkin@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:simkin@xxxxxxxxx>).
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