Michael Gurnis is the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics at the
California Institute of Technology
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Gurnis served as director of the
Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics (CIG), an NSF-funded institute operated by Caltech which supports and promotes Earth science by developing and maintaining open-source software for computational geophysics and related fields.
Gurnis was awarded the 2013 Agustus Love Medal for fundamental contributions to geodynamics from the
European Geosciences Union
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External links
Michael Gurnis' Caltech Home PageMichael Gurnis' 2013 Augustus Love Medal citation
California Institute of Technology faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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