Jerry X. Mitrovica is the Frank Baird Jr. Professor of Science in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. He produced important early work showing that tectonic plates heave, tilt, and fall in addition to drifting across the surface of the planet. He is known for his work on modeling past and predicting future uneven rises and falls in sea level due to the interactions between melting ice caps, local gravitational forces, and plate tectonics, which yield what some might find to be counterintuitive results.
Awards
In 2000 he was a recipient of a
Rutherford Memorial Medal from the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007 he was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on
polar wander. In 2015 he earned the
Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America. In 2019 he was awarded the so-called "Genius Grant", a
MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...
. He also earned the
Kirk Bryan Award for the article, "Sea-level history during the Last Interglacial complex on San Nicolas Island, California: implications for glacial isostatic adjustment processes, paleozoogeography and tectonics".
* 2023
Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship[http://www.nasonline.org/programs/awards/arthur-l-day-prize.html]
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Living people
MacArthur Fellows
Harvard University faculty
1960 births