A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine SciencePast Recipient, Dr. Edward Boyle(1994) |
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Dr. Edward Boyle, the
seventeenth recipient of the A.G.
HUNTSMAN Award, is considered one of the
most productive and imaginative marine
chemists to emerge over the past several
decades. His study of the oceanic
distributions of trace metals in seawater
is recognized as the standard against
which all subsequent work in this area is
measured. He has been responsible for the
creation of a new discipline of marine
geochemistry, which may be called
paleo-oceanographic chemistry. This uses
the trace metal contents of foraminiferal
shells to determine the nutrient status,
the fertility, and the deep-water
circulation of the oceans. This new
discipline ranks alongside the techniques
of stable oxygen and carbon isotope
geochemistry (developed in its modern
form by Dr. Nick Shackleton, University
of Cambridge, U.K., 1990 A.G. HUNTSMAN
Award winner) which is the basic way of
carrying out the study of
paleoclimatology and paleo-oceanography. 