Noah Planavsky Selected for the 2018 F. W. Clarke Award

Written byKevin JohnsonSourceGeochemical Society

Noah Planavsky, PI for the Exobiology & Evolutionary Biology Program, will receive the 2018 F. W. Clarke Medal in August.Image credit: Yale University.

Noah Planavsky, Assistant Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University, will receive the 2018 F.W. Clarke Award this summer. The Clarke Award recognizes an early-career scientist for a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry published either as a single paper or a series of papers on a single topic. Dr. Planavsky is recognized for his work on mid-Proterozoic oxygen levels, as defined by his novel application of the chromium (Cr) isotope proxy. The award will be formally presented at the 2018 Goldschmidt Conference in Boston this August.

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Noah Planavsky examines sedimentary rocks (diamictite) in Northern Norway that were deposited in the aftermath of one of the widespread 'Snowball Earth' glacial events.Image credit: Lyons lab, UC Riverside.

Planavsky is supported by the NASA Astrobiology Program through the Exobiology & Evolutionary Biology Program. He is also a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Alternative Earths and Foundations of Complex Life teams, as well as the Virtual Planetary Laboratory (VPL). Planavsky was a 2008 recipient of the Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology. Planavsky is also an advisor for the NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Program.