| Description | File containing general correspondence of Dan McKenzie, Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, England, 2000. The contents principally comprise various invitations or arrangements for McKenzie to attend symposia or social events, requests for preprints, or permission to republish his papers/figures, letters from publishers, or fellow academics/scientists and members of the public seeking McKenzie's opinion on their works.
Notably includes: letters between McKenzie and members of the faculty of I T U Maden Fakultesi, Jeoloji, Istanbul, Turkey, regarding a complaint by McKenzie that in a recent talk given by Naci Gorur at the University of Edinburgh he used profile data from the Marmara Sea without acknowledging that it had been processed by Jeff Parkes at Cambridge, and that others in I T U have also used the data without acknowledgement, 22 March-10 April 2000; programme and abstracts for the seminar "The Dynamic Earth: Wealth and Waste. Threats and Opportunities for the United Kingdom", held on 12 May 2000, Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, as part of the Cambridge University Government Policy Programme, includes abstract of McKenzie's talk "The Earth as a Dynamic System: Continental Drift and the Movement of Land Masses", May 2000; correspondence between McKenzie and Naomi Oreskes concerning the editing of McKenzie's chapter "Plate Tectonics: A Strange Way to Start a Scientific Career" which would be included in Oreskes' book ['Plate tectonics: an insider's history of the modern theory of the Earth', Cambridge, Massachusetts: Westview Press (2001)], 8-20 September 2000; L Chivers, Awards & Training, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Swindon, England, requesting the final report for the research grant awarded for McKenzie's project 'Melt Generation and Movement in the Mantle', 29 November 2000, a photocopy of McKenzie's original application is also in the folder, June 1995 [see also: LDGSL/1107/B/6/10]. |
| Administrative History | Note: no correspondence for June-August. |