Professors Oliver Chadwick and David Siegel were recently elected as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a Fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers in recognition of their significant efforts to advance science or its applications. Six UCSB scholars received the award this year, giving Geography one third of the total. UCSB now has 40 AAAS Fellows, five of whom are in Geography: Oliver Chadwick, Jeff Dozier (Affiliated Faculty), Reginald Golledge, John Melack (Affiliated Faculty), and David Siegel.
The AAAS Section of Geography and Geology awarded Professor Chadwick the distinction of Fellow for his “outstanding contributions to mineral weathering, soil development, critical zone exploration, soil polygenesis, climate change, and biochemical cycling in soils.” The same AAAS Section made Professor Siegel a Fellow for “distinguished contributions to ocean optics, implications of mixing and stirring in the ocean, ocean bio-optics, ocean-color remote sensing, and spatial interactions in population dynamics.” Oliver and Dave will be presented with an official certificate and a gold and blue (representing science and engineering, respectively) rosette pin at the Fellows Forum during the 2009 AAAS annual meeting in Chicago in February.
“The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science. AAAS was founded in 1848, and includes some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of 1 million. The non-profit AAAS is open to all and fulfills its mission to ‘advance science and serve society’ through initiatives in science policy, international programs, science education, and more” (from the AAAS web site).
Editor’s note: The American Association for the Advancement of Science is often confused with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which has the same acronym. The latter includes artists; civic, corporate, and philanthropic leaders; as well as scholars and scientists. The Department of Geography has three members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Reg Golledge, Mike Goodchild, and Thomas Dunne (Affiliated Faculty).
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