Gary A Glatzmaier

Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
Earth and Marine Sciences Building
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

(541) 214-5882
glatz@ucsc.edu
gary.glatzmaier@gmail.com

Education

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Ph.D. 1980 Physics
Thesis title: Compressible Convection in a Rotating Spherical Shell

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
B.S. 1971 Physics and Mathematics

Positions

Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA (8/14-)
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA (10/98-6/14)
Visiting Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (11/96-5/97)
PhD Scientist (Atmospheric Science & Geophysics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (7/84-10/98)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics & Geophysics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (9/82-6/84)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics & Geophysics), Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridge Univ., England (8/81-8/82)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics), High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, Boulder, CO (10/80-7/81)
Naval Officer and Physics Instructor (Nuclear Reactor Physics), Naval Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD (12/71-12/75)

Outreach and Service

Editorial Board, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (2011-)
Featured in a NOVA program, Magnetic Storm: geodynamo simulations (2003-)
Featured in a video display in the American Museum of Natural History, New York: geodynamo simulations (1999-)
Associate Editor, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (1990-2011)
Director, Center for the Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets, UCSC (2000-2003)

Honors

2014 John Adam Fleming Medal, American Geophysical Union
2010 Member, National Academy of Sciences
2010 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1997 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
1996 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award
1995 Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory