| Description | General correspondence of Dan McKenzie, Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, January-December 1994. The contents principally comprise various invitations and arrangements for McKenzie to attend symposia, serve on committees, give talks or write articles, requests for preprints or computer programs, or permission to republish his papers, correspondence with publishers, or with fellow academics/scientists seeking McKenzie's opinion on their works, but also:
John M Edmond, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, pleased to see McKenzie on Sectional Committee 5 [committee of the Royal Society], and hearing his views on the Claude Allegre fiasco at the US National Academy of Sciences, suggests they nominate Wally Broecker for a Fellowship, 10 February 1994; Myrl E Beck, Department of Geology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA, wants to nominate Ted Irving for the Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America, 14 February 1994, with draft and copy reply from McKenzie willing to support the nomination but suggesting that Irving stands a better chance in getting the Day Medal, 28 February 1994;
Agenda for the August 1994 Joint RADIG/PSG Magellan Investigator meeting, 11 March 1994; Seymour Laxon and David McAdoo, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Department of Space and Climate Physics, University College London, England, wants advice after their paper on a new gravity field of the Arctic Ocean was rejected by the journal 'Nature', 7 March 1994, with copy reply from McKenzie joking that most Earth scientists have their papers rejected by 'Nature' including himself, provides his feedback on their paper notably that gravity field data cannot be used on its own to study tectonics, 11 March 1994; Kurt Lambeck, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, short note thanking McKenzie for his congratulations on Lambeck's election as a Fellow of the Royal Society, 28 March 1994;
Typescript letter to Eiichi Takahashi from McKenzie, concerning arrangements for Takahashi to visit Cambridge and McKenzie's current work with Hikaru Iwamori on parameterisation, [n.d.]; printed email exchange between Peter 'Pete' Molnar and McKenzie discussing how useful plate tectonics became in the study of continental geology, 22 April 1994;
AV notes for the Open University Module S281 'Astronomy and Planetary Science' containing the TV programme 'Venus Unveiled' in which McKenzie took part, [May 1994]; printed email from Karen Harpp, graduate student, Cornell University, New York, USA, disputing McKenzie's belief that his theories lack support amongst graduate students but agreeing that such students do thrive on hoping to prove that established scientists are in the wrong, 6 May 1994;
Letters between Professor Alfred Kröner, Institut fur Geowissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg - Universität Mainz, Germany, and McKenzie, relating to Kröner's suggestion for the establishment of an Earth science journal along similar lines to 'Geology', published by the major European Earth science societies for the American market and that McKenzie could act as editor, and although McKenzie expresses his dislike of the journal 'Geology' he approves of the European dimension but does not wish to act as editor (claiming he was rightly sacked from the journal 'Reviews of Geophysics' for being disorganised), stating that his interests are likely to develop towards astronomy and fluid dynamics for the next five years, finally agrees to be one of the editorial advisors, 22 June-8 August 1994;
John Haines, Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, sending McKenzie detailed notes and equations to calculate seismic strain rates, 29 August 1994, with copy reply from McKenzie commenting that they seem to be discussing two different problems, 2 September 1994; memoranda, programmes and correspondence relating to the symposium 'Milestones in Marine Geophysics, five decades of progress - a tribute to Arthur E Maxwell', held at the Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin (UTIG), USA, 28-29 September 1994, notably includes an abstract of McKenzie's paper 'The relationship between topography and gravity on Earth and Venus", and a copy draft of his introduction which pays tribute to Maxwell, 28 July-7 September 1994; printed email correspondence between Daniel Mege and McKenzie, generally the former seeking McKenzie's advice on geophysical problems at his university, the mechanisms of plate tectonics and when to publish a paper, 3-16 September 1994;
John A Goff, Institute of Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, enjoyed McKenzie's talk at the Maxwell symposium and discusses the problem with cleaning up the data to study the topography of Venus and asks McKenzie's opinion of the surface processes of the planet, 3 October 1994; Dietmar Muller, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Sydney, Australia, wants to arrange a visit to see McKenzie in Cambridge to discuss an area in Australia near the Carnarvon basin which shows uplift whilst thermal subsidence occurred at adjacent margin segments, 7 October 1994, with brief copy reply from McKenzie agreeing, 17 October 1994;
Copy letter from McKenzie to P R Cooper, Royal Society, London, England, complaining about the editorial approach to the publication of papers in the 'Philosophical Transactions A', 2 November 1994; Albrecht W Hofmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Germany, detailing the plans by the Max Planck Society to found a further 15-20 Max Planck Institutes in East Germany, one of which would be concerned with the 'Dynamics and Rheology of the Earth's Interior', and seeking McKenzie's opinion and suggestions for suitable academic staff for specific fields of study, 2 November 1994, with copy reply from McKenzie listing a number of names but highlighting the likely difficulty in hiring major figures who do not speak German, 14 November 1994; faxed letter from Robert 'Bob' Geller, Department of Earth and Planetary Physics, Faculty of Science, Tokyo University, Japan, comments that whilst the seismological community are producing more accurate 3-D models of the Earth's interior, geophysicists don't seem to be interested, 28 November 1994, with brief copy reply from McKenzie explaining that in the past the modelling conducted by seismologists was poor and so will be a difficult sell, 29 November 1994; copy letter from McKenzie to the Executive Secretary, Royal Society, London, 29 November 1994, seeking funding for a field trip to Mongolia to study earthquake surface breaks at the invitation of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, with some of the correspondence, 8 September-1 November 1994;
Professor Alfred Kröner, Universität Mainz, Germany, sending McKenzie the minutes of the previous day's meeting to discuss the foundation of a new journal, 17 December 1994. |