Biographical sketch for Dennis V. Kent

Dennis Kent completed a Ph.D. at Columbia University in marine geology and geophysics and joined the research staff of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory where he was eventually named Doherty Senior Research Scientist and served terms as an Associate Director and Director of Research. As an adjunct faculty member in Columbia's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, he advised a dozen Ph.D. students. He is an author of more than 250 journal and book articles dealing with the tempo of geomagnetic polarity reversals, paleogeographic reconstructions, and other aspects of Earth magnetism. According to ScienceWatch, he is one of the most highly cited Earth scientists in the world. Kent is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America, the VMSG Medal from the Vening Meinesz School of Geodynamics in Holland, a Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research from Rutgers University, and the Petrus Peregrinus Medal from the European Geophysical Union. In 2004, he elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and received an honorary doctorate from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in 2005. Kent has served on the governing boards of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (including Chair) and IODP-Management International in Washington, D.C., and as elected president of the Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism section of AGU. He is now Board of Governors Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, and Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.