Flinn-Hart award to Dr. Spengler

The 2011 Flinn-Hart award was announced to be presented to Dr. Dirk Spengler, a former post-doctoral fellow of the Senior Research Fellow Center (SRFC) of Ehime Univ., who was working at the GRC under the supervision of Dr. Y. Nishihara of the SRFC. This international award is presented by the Bureau of the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) to an outstanding young scientist for contributions to the solid Earth sciences covered by the ILP. 11 awardees (including the previous Flinn Award winners from 1991) were selected in the past 20 years, and Dr. Spengler was the first winner from a Japanese institute. The award ceremony was held in Vienna during the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union in April.