A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine SciencePast Recipient, Prof. I. Nicholas McCave (1999) |
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The
recipient of the A.G. Huntsman Award for
1999 is Prof. I. Nicholas McCave of the
University of Cambridge, UK. This major
Canadian award recognizes Dr. McCave's
many seminal contributions to the
evolution of a processed-based
understanding of fine-sediment grain size
distributions in the sea. His efforts to
unravel the environmental record stored
in muds have yielded insights that extend
beyond marine sedimentology and into the
broader field of marine particle dynamics
and physical oceanography. His dedicated
pursuit of mechanistic understanding of
fine-sediment dynamics has led to
important contributions in a wide range
of marine sedimentary environments
ranging from the nearshore to the deep
sea. His groundbreaking theory and
observations of fine-sediment deposition,
aggregation and hydrodynamic sorting
continue to advance a field that in
general has suffered from reliance on
empirical calibration of poorly
parameterized models. His work has led to
greater understanding of phytoplankton
bloom dynamics, vertical particle flux in
the sea (a key element of the Joint
Global Ocean Flux Study), and the
kinematics of deep-sea circulation in the
ancient ocean. 