John-Michael Kendall

Mike Kendall FRS
Born	John-Michael Kendall 1962 (age 62–63) [1]
Alma mater	Queen's University (BSc, PhD)
Awards	Bullerwell Lecture (2003) [2]
Scientific career
Fields	Geology Geophysics Seismology [3]
Institutions	University of Oxford Chevron Corporation Scripps Institution of Oceanography University of Toronto University of Leeds [4] University of Bristol [5] [6]
Thesis	Contributions to the theory and modelling of seismic waves in anisotropic inhomogeneous media with applications to subduction-zones  (1991)
Doctoral advisor	Colin J. Thomson [6]
Website	johnmichaelkendall.com

John-Michael Kendall (born 1962) ^[1] FRS ^[7] is a geophysicist and professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford. ^{[2] [8]}

Education

Kendall was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984 ^[6] and a PhD in 1991 supervised by Colin J. Thomson. ^{[1] [6] [9]}

Career and research

Kendall's research interests are in geology, geophysics and seismology. ^{[3] [10]} Kendall has led field experiments in a range of geologic settings varying from the Arctic Archipelago, to Oman ^[11] and Ethiopia. ^{[12] [13]}

Previously Kendall has worked for the Chevron Corporation in Canada, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States, the University of Toronto, the University of Leeds ^[4] and the University of Bristol. ^{[5] [6]}

Awards and honours

Kendall served as president of the British Geophysical Association (BGA) and vice-president (Geophysics) of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2021, and in 2011 he was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He was awarded the Gold Medal (GP) of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2024.

References

1. Kendall, John-Michael (1992). Contributions to the theory and modelling of seismic waves in anisotropic inhomogeneous media with applications to subduction-zones. queensu.ca (PhD thesis). Queen's University. OCLC   28669169.
2. "Department of Earth Sciences » Professor Michael Kendall joins Oxford Earth Sciences". Oxford: University of Oxford.
3. John-Michael Kendall publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. Kendall, J.-M.; Silver, P. G. (1996). "Constraints from seismic anisotropy on the nature of the lowermost mantle". Nature. 381 (6581): 409–412. Bibcode:1996Natur.381..409K. doi:10.1038/381409a0. ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   4281356.
5. Wookey, James; Stackhouse, Stephen; Kendall, J-Michael; Brodholt, John; Price, G. David (2005). "Efficacy of the post-perovskite phase as an explanation for lowermost-mantle seismic properties". Nature. 438 (7070): 1004–1007. Bibcode:2005Natur.438.1004W. doi:10.1038/nature04345. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   16355222. S2CID   4351425.
6. Kendall, John-Michael (2019). "Professor Mike Kendall FRS". johnmichaelkendall.com. Archived from the original on 5 November 2019.
7. Anon (2019). "Professor John-Michael Kendall FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

   "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)

8. John-Michael Kendall on Twitter
9. Kendall, J-M.; Thomson, C. J. (1989). "A comment on the form of the geometrical spreading equations, with some numerical examples of seismic ray tracing in inhomogeneous, anisotropic media". Geophysical Journal International. 99 (2): 401–413. Bibcode:1989GeoJI..99..401K. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1989.tb01697.x . ISSN   0956-540X.
10. John-Michael Kendall publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
11. Al-Harrasi, Othman Harith (2010). Fractured reservoir characterisation using shear-wave splitting in microseismic data : a case study from Oman (PhD thesis). University of Bristol. hdl:1983/30288fe4-70c5-4284-afeb-adab400ed4c6. OCLC   757129763. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.529853.
12. Kendall, J.-M.; Stuart, G. W.; Ebinger, C. J.; Bastow, I. D.; Keir, D. (2005). "Magma-assisted rifting in Ethiopia". Nature. 433 (7022): 146–148. Bibcode:2005Natur.433..146K. doi:10.1038/nature03161. hdl: 2158/1078050 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   15650736. S2CID   1290686.
13. Teanby, N. A.; Kendall, J.-M.; van der Baan, M. (2004). "Automation of Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements using Cluster Analysis". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 94 (2): 453–463. Bibcode:2004BuSSA..94..453T. doi:10.1785/0120030123. ISSN   0037-1106.