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54 SEG NEWSLETTER No 90 • JULY 2012 personal notes & news CAREER-RELATED CHANGES ANTONIO ARRIBAS (SEG 1994 F) has been appointed vice president geosciences with the BHP Billiton Minerals Exploration group in Singapore. In addition to his new career duties, Antonio will serve as the 2013 president of SEG. PETER ELLSWORTH (SEG 1996) was recently appointed VP of exploration for Colombia Crest Gold. TODD JOHNSON (SEG 1989) has been named vice president of exploration for Monument Mining. ANDREW SWARTHOUT (SEG 1994 F) has been appointed as a director of Esperanza Resources. DEATHS CHRISTOPHER GLEESON (SEG 1971 LF) died May 19, 2012. He was president of C.F. Gleeson and Associates, Ltd., in Iroquois, Ontario, Canada. DOMINICUS MUELLER (SEG 1985 F) died May 6, 2012. At the time of his death, he was in living in Mount Lawley, WA, Australia. CHAPALENDU RAY (SEG 1962 LF) died in 2008 in Calcutta, India. ABDOLMAJID YAGHUBPUR (SEG 1986 F) died June 11, 2012. He was a professor at Tarbiat Moalem University, Iran. RICHARD H. SIBSON (SEG 2009 F) is slated to receive the Geological Society of America 2012 Distinguished Career Award (International Section) at the GSA 2012 Annual Award and Exposition in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November. J. DAVID LOWELL (SEG 1996 LF) will be inducted into the National Mining Hall of Fame during the Mining Hall’s 25 th Silver Anniversary Induction Banquet & Ceremony at the Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 22. David is credited with having discovered and contributed to the discovery of a number of major producing mines, including La Escondida in Chile, which was developed into the world’s largest copper mine, and the nearby Zaldivar-Escondida Norte orebody. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on porphyry copper deposits. The award is bestowed annually on individuals who are considered visionaries, leaders, and ambassadors of the mining industry. An active SEG member and volunteer, David is a recipient of the SEG Silver Medal and the Penrose Gold Medal (in 1983 and 2003, respectively), among numerous other awards. AWARDS SEG Members Share the Inaugural AMIRA Award Bruce Gemmell and David Cooke pose with their awards at the biennial AMIRA conference. DAVID COOKE (SEG 1992 F) and BRUCE GEMMELL (SEG 1987 F) have been awarded the inaugural AMIRA Medal for excellence in geoscience research. The duo from the Centre for Ore Deposit Studies at the University of Tasmania, Australia, were selected by the votes of the exploration managers and senior geologists of the global mining companies who make up AMIRA International’s membership. The award was given for their investigation of geochemical vectors in magmatic hydrothermal systems in porphyry copper deposits and presented before an audience of more than 100 exploration managers and geoscience researchers at AMIRA’s biennial global conference of exploration managers, held this year in Western Australia. MEMBERSHIP SEG Benefits: Not Just Hype! Members of SEG, especially those who are new to the Society, may not be aware that there is a course center at SEG headquarters in Littleton, Colorado. SEG is now developing practical classes for economic geologists. In addition to field methods, courses offered focus on technological advances in exploration and analysis. Please visit our website (www.segweb.org) frequently, and be sure to read SEG news that arrives in your e-mail! GARTH KIRKHAM (SEG 2009 F), P.Geo., principal at Kirkham Geosystems Ltd. of Burnaby, B.C., Canada, was presented with the ”Julian Boldy Award,” which recognizes exceptional service to the Geologi cal Society of Canadian Institute of Min ing (CIM) and the exploration industry. Garth was recognized for his exemplary efforts in mineral resource modeling and estimation, and for his outstanding leadership to both the Geological Society of CIM and the geosciences profession. Kirkham Geosystems Ltd., provides 3D modelling and resource/reserve estimation services to the mining industry and consulting services to the mineral exploration community. Garth (left) accepts the CIM Julian Boldy Award.
JULY 2012 • No 90 SEG NEWSLETTER 55 DEATH HEINRICH DIETER HOLLAND (SEG 1968 SF) H.D. (Dick) Holland died May 21, 2012, in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Dick was born May 27, 1927, in Mannheim, Germany, emigrating via Kindertransport to England in 1939, thence via the Dominican Republic, where his parents and young sister were moved, to the United States in 1940. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry, with highest honors, at Princeton University in 1946 and served in the U.S. Army in 1946–1947. Dick received his master’s degree in geology in 1948 and Ph.D. in 1952 from Columbia University, working with Professor Laurence Kulp in the first group of geochemists assembled at Columbia. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 1950, advancing from instructor to full professor during his tenure, until 1972. From 1972 to 2006, Dick was professor at Harvard University, ultimately with the Harry C. Dudley Professorship in Economic Geology. Finally, from 2006 until his death, Dick was Visiting Scholar in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he remained actively engaged in research and mentoring until very shortly before his death. During his long academic career, visiting appointments and sabbaticals included Oxford and Durham Univer - sities, the University of Hawaii, Heidelburg University, the Pennsylvania State University, Imperial College, London, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He was a member of the National Academy of Science and the winner of many distinguished awards and fellowships, all around the world. Dick was a distinguished member of the generation of chemists who migrated at mid-century to the earth sciences in search of applications of the rapidly advancing theory and practice of quantitative chemistry. Early in his career, Dick found fertile ground for his quantitative bent that coupled with his enthusiasm for geology in the burgeoning field of economic geology. Dick published 20 papers in Economic Geology (and many more elsewhere), with his first citation in 1954 (“Geochemical Prospecting at Cobalt Ontario,” v. 49, p. 378–388, with George Koehler and Blair Hostettler), and his final publication in 2005 for the 100 th Anniversary Volume (“Sedimentary Mineral Deposits and the Evolution of the Earth’s Near-Surface Environment,” v. 100, p. 1489– 1509). Among the many papers, his quantitative contributions are well shown by the two-part sequence “Applications of Thermodynamic Data to the Problems of Ore Deposition,” [Part I in 1959 (v. 54, p. 184–233) and Part II in 1965 (v. 60, p. 1101–1166)]. His large-scale synthesis of the geochemical conditions of ore genesis is well represented by his 1972 paper, “Granites, Solutions, and Base Metal Deposits (v. 67, p. 281–301). Even when his research migrated back to issues of the geochemical evolution of the oceans and atmosphere, ore deposits—particularly the great Precambrian banded iron formations (BIF)—were central to addressing Dick’s research interest. His first paper on BIF was published in Economic Geology in 1964, and his most recent in Science in 2007. Dick received the Penrose Gold Medal of the Society of Economic Geologists in 1995, was a Distinguished Lecturer in 1969, and the Thayer Lindsley Lecturer in 1981-1982. Over his more than half-century of teaching, he instructed and H.D. Holland (right) and Dr. Antje Danielson, Labrador, 1991 (Photo by Andrew Macfarlane, used with permission) mentored generations of economic geologists widely distributed at universities, geological surveys, and in private industry across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Dick was known by his students and fellow researchers as a man of scientific rigor and great intellect. But we came to know him also as a committed citizen of his adopted country, as a teacher working at levels from science instruction of inner-city youth and their teachers to some of our finest universities, and as a general counselor on science policy through his work with the National Academy. His friends found him to be a man of great good humor—fond of argument, but as much so of laughter, knowledgeable of the fine arts, history, and literature (in several languages!), and a connoisseur of wines, especially his beloved Rieslings. He was a devoted family man. Above all else, we will remember him as a man of great loyalty to his friends and students—a trait on which we all have relied, sometimes over and over again. H.D. Holland was predeceased by his son Matthew and his wife, Alice. His survivors include three children, Henry, Anne, and John, four grandchildren, and a sister and a brother. In lieu of flowers, the immediate family requests that donations be forwarded in Memory of Heinrich D. Holland to The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (http://www.ushmm.org/) or the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human Rights (http://sites.national academies.org/PGA/humanrights/index.htm). Contributed by Mark J. Logsdon (Aptos, California) and Hiroshi Ohmoto (the Pennsylvania State University). We gratefully acknowledge generous assistance from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University, Drs. Antje Danielson and Andrew Macfarlane, the SEG staff, and the Holland family. To read an additional obituary from Dr. Holland’s daughter, Anne Liebrecht Holland, please visit the online SEG Newsletter supplement. MEMBERSHIP
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