Terry Ann Plank is an American geochemist, volcanologist and professor of earth science at Columbia College, Columbia University, and the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
17 Facts About Terry Plank
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Terry Plank is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Terry Plank had them sit and have lunch while on top of a slow-moving lava flow and while watching bright red goops of lava crack out from their black casings.
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From 1999 to 2007, Terry Plank was a professor of Earth Sciences at Boston University.
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Since 2008, Plank has been at Columbia University in New York, New York, appointed as an Arthur D Storke Memorial Professor in their Earth and Environmental Science Department.
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Terry Plank has held two visiting Professor positions in France: summer 1998 at the University of Rennes in Rennes and summer 2002 at the Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble.
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Terry Plank has spent her career researching magma and volcanoes.
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Terry Plank uses microanalysis and modeling of volatile diffusion along small melt tubes and embayments, found in olivine crystals.
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Terry Plank has done field work around the ring of fire, Philippines, Nicaragua, Iceland, and across the southwest United States as well as the Aleutian Islands.
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Terry Plank serves on the executive committee of the Deep Carbon Observatory.
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Terry Plank's research focuses on magmas that evolve due to the plate tectonic cycle, namely subduction zones.
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Terry Plank has since updated GLOSS to GLOSS-II in her 2014 publication, Chemical composition of subducting sediments.
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Terry Plank was presented with the John Ebers Geology Award while at Dartmouth College.
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In 1998, Terry Plank received the Houtermans Medal from the European Association for Geochemistry as well as the Donath Medal from the Geological Society of America.
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In 2012, Terry Plank was awarded the MacArthur Genius Grant and the following year was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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Terry Plank received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Dartmouth in 2015, and in 2016 was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Terry Plank received the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2018.