Suzanne Mahlburg Kay

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay (née Mahlburg) is the William & Katherine Snee Professor of Geological Sciences at Cornell University. She studies the origin and evolution of the continental crust. She is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of America.

Suzanne Mahlburg Kay
Alma materUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Brown University
Scientific career
InstitutionsCornell University
University of California, Los Angeles

Early life and education

Kay studied at the University of Illinois, earning a Master's degree in 1972.[1][2] She completed her PhD at Brown University in mineralogy and petrology. She worked at University of California, Los Angeles as a postdoctoral fellow. Kay joined Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher in 1976. She was a Fulbright Program Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires in 1989. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor in 1999.[3]

Research

Kay studies the origin and evolution of the continental crust, looking at how regional tectonics are linked to magmatic processes.[4] She investigates rocks and minerals using neutron activation analysis, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, mass spectrometry and electron microscopes.[4] She focuses on the Andean crust in central and South America. She has looked at the evolution of mid-tertiary magmatic rocks in the Andean subduction zone.[4] She also investigates the Punta Altiplano.

Professional service

She served as President of the Geological Society of America in 2013 to 2014, and the Mineralogical Society of America Dana Medal Committee between 2013 and 2015.[5][6] Kay serves on the board of editors of the Journal of South American Earth Sciences.[7] She is on the selection fellows committee of the American Geophysical Union.[8]

Awards and honours

2015 Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Argentina[9]

2012 University of Illinois Geology Alumni Achievement Award[10]

2011 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union[11]

2008 Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America[12]

2007 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Outstanding Educator Award[3][13]

2000 Geological Society of America Distinguished Service Award[14]

Books

2009 Backbone of the Americas: Shallow Subduction, Plateau Uplift, and Ridge and Terrane Collision[15]

2008 Field Trip Guides to the Backbone of the Americas in the Southern and Central Andes: Ridge Collision, Shallow Subduction, and Plateau Uplift[16]

2006 Evolution of an Andean Margin: A Tectonic and Magmatic View from the Andes to the Neuquén Basin (35 Degrees-39 Degrees S Lat)[17]

1990 Plutonism from Antarctica to Alaska[18]

References
  1. "Suzanne E. Mahlburg Is Affianced". The New York Times. 1975-03-16. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  2. "3140 Snee Hall, 607/255-4701; skay@geology". www.geo.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  3. "AAPG Honors and Awards" (PDF). AAPG. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  4. "Suzanne Mahlburg Kay | Earth and Atmospheric Sciences". www.eas.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  5. "Alumni Newsletter (2012-2013) | Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  6. "Mineralogical Society of America". www.minsocam.org. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  7. "Suzanne Mahlburg Kay - Editorial board - Journal of South American Earth Sciences - ISSN 0895-9811". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  8. "Volcanology, Geochemistry, and Petrology Section Fellows Committee". Honors Program. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  9. "Argentina National Academy of Sciences inducts Suzanne Kay". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  10. "Univ of Illinois Geology Colloquium". ijolite.geology.uiuc.edu. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  11. Anonymous (2011-04-19). "AGU Fellows Elected for 2011". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 92 (16): 137–138. Bibcode:2011EOSTr..92..137.. doi:10.1029/2011eo160006. ISSN 0096-3941.
  12. "Mineralogical Society of America". Elements. 4 (4): 276–277. 2008-08-01. ISSN 1811-5209.
  13. "AAPG Foundation - AAPG Eastern Section Named Grant". foundation.aapg.org. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  14. "Geological Society of America - Past Award & Medal Recipients". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
  15. R., Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg, 1947- Ramos, Víctor A. Dickinson, William (2009). Backbone of the Americas : shallow subduction, plateau uplift, and ridge and terrane collision. Geological Society of America. ISBN 9780813712048. OCLC 938751855.
  16. Mahlburg., Kay, Suzanne (2008). Field trip guides to the backbone of the Americas in the southern and central Andes: ridge collision, shallow subduction, and plateau uplift. Geological Society of America. ISBN 9780813700137. OCLC 637252987.
  17. A., Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg, 1947- Ramos, Víctor (2006). Evolution of an Andean margin : a tectonic and magmatic view from the Andes to the Neuquén Basin (35 degrees-39 degrees S lat). Geological Society of America. ISBN 978-0813724072. OCLC 985777560.
  18. W., Kay, Suzanne Mahlburg, 1947- Rapela, Carlos (1990). Plutonism from Antarctica to Alaska : [papers presented at the International Symposium on "Circum-Pacific Phanerozoic Granitoids", held during X Argentine Geological Congress in San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina on September 13-18, 1987]. [Geological Society of America]. ISBN 978-0813722412. OCLC 985775697.
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