T34A:
Birch Lecture





Session ID#: 28956

Session Description:
The Francis Birch Lecture honors the life and work of the renowned geophysicist, who work was concerned chiefly with elasticity, phase relations, thermal properties and heat flow, and the composition of the Earth’s interior. The Birch Lecture is also a part of the Bowie Lecture series, which was inaugurated in 1989 to commemorate the 50th presentation of the William Bowie medal, which is AGU’s highest honor and named for its first president. Birch is a past recipient of the William Bowie medal.
Primary Convener:  Ross S Stein, Temblor, Inc., Tiburon, CA, United States
Convener:  Julia Morgan, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States
Chairs:  Julia Morgan, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States and Ross S Stein, Temblor, Inc., Tiburon, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Julia Morgan, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States
Index Terms:

8199 General or miscellaneous [TECTONOPHYSICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Lithospheric Strength and Stress State: Persistent Challenges and New Directions in Geodynamics (Invited) (273286)
Greg Hirth, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States

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