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CSDMS Director James Syvitski has been elected AGU Fellow and will be honored at the Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting on December 16th, 2010. AGU Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of the geophysical sciences. The American Geophysical Union reserves this honor for less than 0.1% of their members every year. <br>
CSDMS Director James Syvitski has been elected AGU Fellow and will be honored at the Annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting on December 16th, 2010. AGU Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the advancement of the geophysical sciences. The American Geophysical Union reserves this honor for less than 0.1% of their members every year. <br>


Professor Syvitski’s has brought new science insights to the disciplines of oceanography, rivers and fjord processes, and the understanding of sediment transport. He approached these domains by building new quantitative connections; from glacier to fjord, and especially river fluxes into the world oceans.  He used an experimentalist approach with development of numerical models and this lead to the first models that estimated the effects of climate change on river fluxes, to new insights in shelf drainage network reorganization and to recent new ideas of the effects of humans on sinking deltas.<br>
Professor Syvitski’s has brought new science insights to the disciplines of oceanography, rivers and fjord processes, and the understanding of sediment transport. He approached these domains by building new quantitative connections and models; from glacier to fjord, and especially river fluxes into the world oceans.  He used an experimentalist approach with development of numerical models and this lead to the first models that estimated the effects of climate change on river fluxes, to new insights in shelf drainage network reorganization and to recent new ideas of the effects of humans on sinking deltas. He brings the community together to model earth surface processes and bridges traditional science domains in the process<br>


AGU describes their scientists as “people who explore the surface, interior, oceans and atmosphere of Earth”. James fits the profile: he has jumped on tidewater glacier snouts, blasted deltas to investigate turbidity currents, collected invaluable oceanographic casts while his vessel was leaking because it crashed into an iceberg, chased away polar bears from interesting fjord sediments, and has seen the ocean floor up close in a deepwater submersible.  Currently, he broadened his perspective and explores the Earth from satellite imagery.
AGU describes their scientists as “people who explore the surface, interior, oceans and atmosphere of Earth”. James fits the profile: he has jumped on tidewater glacier snouts, blasted deltas to investigate turbidity currents, collected invaluable oceanographic casts while his vessel was leaking because it crashed into an iceberg, chased away polar bears from interesting fjord sediments, and has seen the ocean floor up close in a deepwater submersible.  Currently, he broadened his perspective and explores the Earth from satellite imagery.

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