Douglas A. Wiens

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Douglas A. Wiens
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Wheaton College
Northwestern University
Scientific career
FieldsGeophysics
Institutions Washington University in St. Louis

Douglas A. Wiens is an American geophysicist, focusing in seismology and geophysics, currently the Robert S. Brookings Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. [1] [2]

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Career

Wiens received his bachelor's degree in physics from Wheaton College in 1980, followed by an M.A. in 1982 and a Ph.D. in geosciences from Northwestern University in 1985 under the supervision of Seth Stein. [3] He became a faculty member at Washington University in 1984, [4] and has held visiting positions at Australian National University, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the University of Tokyo. He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. [5] Doug has published more than 200 papers in refereed scientific journals, and supervised 21 PhD theses. He was chair of the Washington University Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences from 2008-2013. [6]

Awards

Antarctic Service Medal of the United States, 2002 [7]

Elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, 2007 [8]

Robert and Bettie Cody Award in Ocean Sciences, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 2014 [9]

Seismological Society of America Distinguished Lectureship, 2015 [10]

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References

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  2. "Doug Wiens". wustl.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  3. "Physics Tree - Douglas A. Wiens". academictree.org. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  4. "News - Video - Douglas Wiens talks about his project to learn how the Gamburtsev Mountains formed. | NSF - National Science Foundation". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  5. "Douglas Wiens" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-05-01.
  6. https://eeps.wustl.edu/files/eps/Vita_nopubs_2023.pdf
  7. https://eeps.wustl.edu/files/eps/Vita_nopubs_2023.pdf
  8. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007EO260013
  9. https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/prominent-seismologist-unlocks-antarcticas-secrets-public-lecture
  10. https://www.iris.edu/hq/programs/epo/distinguished_lectureship