Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann awarded 2016 Max Hey Medal
Senior Lecturer recognised for the excellence of his early career research by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Dr Philip Pogge von Strandmann, Senior Lecturer in Isotope Geochemistry, will be awarded the Max Hey Medal of the Mineralogical Society for 2016. The award is given ‘to recognise existing and ongoing research of excellence carried out by young workers, within the fields of either Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology or Geochemistry.’
The award honours Philip's research using novel ‘non-traditional’ isotope geochemistry to understand and quantify the long-term carbon cycle and its interactions with Earth System processes. In particular, this has led to new methods for constraining the processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and has shown that the Earth's climate can stabilise itself after a rapid climate change event within a few hundred thousand years.
The Max Hey medal was established in 1993 and named in honour of the eminent British mineralogist Dr M.H. Hey (1904–1984).