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Tony Dahlen
Professor of Geosciences
(Seismology)

Department of Geosciences
Princeton University

Professor Dahlen passed away on June 3rd, 2007. A fund will be set up in his memory. Details will be posted in these pages soon. Check made out to the "Trustees of Princeton University", with "Dahlen fund" written in the memo line can be mailed to: Ms. Debbie Fahey, 114 Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544.

Education

1964:  B.S. from California Institute of Technology
1967:  M.S. from University of California at San Diego
1969:  Ph.D. from University of California at San Diego

1969-1970: NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
1970-1975: Assistant Professor, Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1975-1979: Associate Professor, Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1977-1978: Visiting Professor, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
1993-1994: Visiting Professor, Institut de Physique du Glove de Paris, Paris, France
1979-1999: Professor of Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, 1971-1973
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1986
Best Paper Award, Structural Geology and Tectonics Division, Geological Society of America, 1986
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1993
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2000
Gutenberg Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, 2002
Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2003

National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship Review Panel, 1976
Associate Editor, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1977-1980
National Science Foundation, Earth Sciences Review Panel, 1982-1985
IRIS, Standing Committee on the Global Seismic Network, 1983-1985
Office of Technology Assessment, Advisory Panel on Seismic Verification, 1986-1987
National Science Foundation, Principal Young  Investigator Awards Review Panel, 1986-1987
Visiting Committee, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 1987-1993
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Committee on Mathematical Geophysics, 1988-1992
National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Centers Review Panel, 1988
National Research Council, Committee on Seismology, 1989-1995

American Geophysical Union
Seismological Society of America
Royal Astronomical Society
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Theoretical global seismology, free oscillations of aspherical, anelastic and anisotropic Earth models, seismic wave propagation in heterogeneous media, mode-ray duality, mechanics of earthquake sources, rotation of the Earth, mechanics and themodynamics of brittle frictional mountain building.

Full Name:  Francis Anthony Dahlen, Jr.
Date and Place of Birth: 5 December, 1942, American Falls, Idaho
Citizenship:  USA