Wolfgang Berger#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2115 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2001 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/berger.html |
Wolfgang Berger passed away August 6, 2017.
Positions Held
- 2006 Emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
- 1997 Director of the California Space Institute in San Diego
- 1980 Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
- 1974 Associate Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
- 1971 Assistant Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
- 1970 - 1971 Assistant at the Geological Institute of the University of Kiel
- 1968 - 1970 Researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
- 1968 PhD in oceanography from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Fields of Scholarship
- Carbon cycle
- Ocean productivity
- History of oceanography
- Climate history
- Marine sedimentation
- Ocean history
- Micropaleontology
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- Fellow of the Geological Society of America
- 1979 Bigelow Medal, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
- 1980 Norwegian Research Fellow
- 1984 Huntsman Award, Bedford Institute of Oceanography
- 1986 Lady Davis Fellow, Hebrew University
- 1986 Humboldt Award, presented in Bonn
- 1988 Maurice Ewing Medal, presented in San Francisco
- 1991 Prince Albert I Medal, presented in Paris
- 1993 Balzan Prize, presented in Bern
- 1998 Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille, presented in Bern
- 2001 Foreign Member, Academia Europaea
