[IGPP Everyone] Fwd: John Crowell (1917-2015)

[Kevin McKeegan]

Dear Colleagues,
   Although I know that many of you are already aware of this, I thought I
should still forward the sad news that John Crowell has passed away.  Prof.
Crowell was a geologist of legendary stature from the early days of the
department at UCLA; you can read below a short obituary sent by Nicholas
Christie-Blick, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia
University.

There will be a memorial on Saturday, June 27 at 3:00 p.m. in the
auditorium at Casa Dorinda, Santa Barbara. John's daughter, Mary, indicates
that geologists are most welcome to join that gathering.

-Kevin

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 *From: *Nicholas Christie-Blick <ncb at ldeo.columbia.edu>
 *Subject: **John Crowell (1917-2015)*
 *Date: *May 16, 2015 at 9:03:23 AM PDT
 *To: *LDEO <everyone-ldeo at ldeo.columbia.edu>

  John C. Crowell, Professor Emeritus at the University of California,
Santa Barbara passed away on 13 May, 2015, the day after his 98th birthday.
John will be remembered for his ground-breaking contributions to the
tectonics of the San Andreas fault system and to the record of Paleozoic
glaciation across the Gondwanan continents. Ridge basin, California – the
subject of his 1947 PhD dissertation at UCLA and decades of subsequent
research – remains the definitive study of sedimentation along a
strike-slip fault. John, who was a member of the University of California
faculty for 40 years (1947-1967 at UCLA, and 1967-1987 at UCSB), was most
comfortable teaching in the field, where critical observational details
connect with the big picture, and where one-on-one interactions tended to
offset his more formal string-tied campus persona. His mentoring style was
to engage without hovering, to foster independence, and to engineer
opportunities for his students, an interest that continued for years after
graduation. No GSA meeting was complete without the obligatory 30 minute
debriefing. Among notable honors, John was a member of the National Academy
of Sciences (1981) and the 1995 recipient of the Penrose Medal of the
Geological Society of America. A remarkable life. Thanks for the memories.
- Nicholas Christie-Blick
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