Rick Carlson has been elected a 2009 fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is among 210 new fellows and 19 foreign honorary members. The academy recognizes the contributions of exceptional scientists, scholars, artists, writers, jurists, civic and corporate leaders, and philanthropists. The academy’s citation provides: “Carlson has developed and applied a range of isotope geochemical and cosmochemical tools that have substantially shaped our understanding of the origin of continental magmas, the formation of continental crust and lithospheric mantle, the early differentiation of the Earth and Moon, and the chronology of the early solar system.”

In addition to this honor, Carlson received the 2008 Norman L. Bowen Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He has served on many scientific review panels for the National Science Foundation, NASA, and others. Carlson is a fellow of the AGU and the Geochemical Society.

DTM director Sean Solomon commented, “Rick Carlson is one of the most innovative leaders in isotope geochemistry active today. He tackles major scientific questions with shrewd approaches and analytical mastery, and he has an international reputation for his hands-on methodology, his open laboratory, and the care that he brings to his measurements and analysis.”

For information, see the CIW Press Release.