Rick Carlson will receive AGU's 2008 N. L. Bowen Award, named in honor of experimental petrologist and long-time Geophysical Laboratory staff member Norman Bowen. The award is given annually “to recognize outstanding contributions to volcanology, geochemistry, or petrology.” Carlson will receive the award, and will present a Bowen Lecture, at the 2008 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco in December. For more information, see the CIW press release.