Michael Perfit

Michael Roger Perfit (born 1949) is an American geologist who is currently a distinguished professor at the University of Florida.[1][2][3][4]

Perfit graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1971, and earned a master's degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1974 and 1977, respectively. After working for five years as a research fellow at the Australian National University, he joined the University of Florida faculty in 1982.[5]

He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, elected in 2008 for "his distinguished contributions in marine geology and igneous petrology."[6]

Selected publications
  • Brown, Don; Perfit, Mike (2017). Older Than Dirt: A Wild but True History of Earth. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 9780544805033. LCCN 2016018643.[7]
  • Karson, Jeffrey A.; Kelley, Deborah S.; Fornari, Daniel J.; Perfit, Michael R.; Shank, Timothy M. (2015). Discovering the Deep: A Photographic Atlas of the Seafloor and Ocean Crust. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85718-5. LCCN 2014028680.[8] In 2016, this book received a PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers.[9][10]
  • Lowell, Robert P.; Seewald, Jeffrey S.; Metaxas, Anna; Perfit, Michael R., eds. (2013). Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic Spreading Centers. American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series. 178. John Wiley & Sons.

References
  1. "Michael Perfit". ufl.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  2. "Distinguished Professors". ufl.edu. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  3. "Michael Perfit". The Conversation. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  4. Szmania, Chelsea. "Geologist Describes "Frightening, Exhilarating" Dive 8,500 Feet Underwater". Inverse. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  5. "Curriculum vitae". Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  6. 2008 GSA Fellows, Elected by Council 4 May 2008, GSA Today, vol. 18, no. 7 (July 2008), Geological Society of America; p. 18
  7. Reviews of Older Than Dirt:
  8. Reviews of Discovering the Deep:
  9. "2016 Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  10. Manley, Amy (2017-03-08). "Like Traveling to Another Planet". Syracuse University. Retrieved 2019-05-15.


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