Everything about G Michael Purdy totally explained
Graham Michael "Mike" Purdy is a
British geophysicist and oceanographer who specializes in marine seismology. He is the current Director of the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of
Columbia University.
Education
Purdy received a B.S. with honors in
1969 and an M.S. in
1970 from
Imperial College of the
University of London, then received a PhD in marine geophysics from the
University of Cambridge in
1974.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
After leaving Cambridge, Purdy joined
WHOI in 1974 as a Post Doctoral Scholar. In
1991, he became Chairman of the Department of Geology and Geophysics (G&G), a position he held until leaving WHOI in
1995 for the NSF.
National Science Foundation
From 1995 to
2000, Purdy served as the Director of the Division of Ocean Sciences in the Geosciences Directorate of the NSF. He oversaw a breadth of research activities, including the international
Ocean Drilling Program and the foundation-wide
Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn) initiative, which he established in
1997(External Link
).
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
At LDEO, Purdy has worked to further the department's role in
The Earth Institute at Columbia University, an inter-departmental research institute founded in 1995 to address the complex social, economic, and environmental implications of the earth sciences. LDEO is the largest component of this alliance, and Purdy has taken an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to the traditional earth science work of the department. For example, he began the Director’s Series on the Science of Diversity, bringing researchers in the social sciences to LDEO to speak on issues such as gender differences in scientific research productivity. He has dedicated particular attention to the problem of
climate change, particularly as highlighted by the work of fellow LDEO scientist
Wally Broecker.
Awards and Honors
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