Gary A Glatzmaier

Earth and Planetary Sciences Department
Earth and Marine Sciences Building
University of California
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

(831) 459-5504
http://es.ucsc.edu/~glatz
glatz@es.ucsc.edu

Education

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Ph.D. 1980 Physics
Thesis title: Compressible Convection in a Rotating Spherical Shell

Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
B.S. 1971 Physics and Mathematics
Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Positions

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA (10/98-)
Visiting Professor of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (11/96-5/97)
PhD Scientist (Geophysics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (7/84-10/98)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (9/82-6/84)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics), Newcastle upon Tyne and Cambridge Univ., England (8/81-8/82)
Postdoctoral Fellow (Solar Physics), High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, Boulder, CO (10/80-7/81)
Naval Officer and Physics Instructor (Nuclear Reactor Physics), Naval Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, MD (12/71-12/75)

Outreach and Service

Associate Editor, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (1990-)
Featured in a video display in the American Museum of Natural History, New York: geodynamo simulations (1999-)
Featured in a NOVA program, Magnetic Storm: geodynamo simulations (2003-)
Steering Committee for High-Performance Computing Requirements for the Computational Solid Earth Sciences (2004)
Director, Center for the Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets, UCSC (2000-2003)
Executive Committee, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Alamos (1987-1998)
Executive Committee, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos (1988-1990)
Advisory Board for the IUGG Committee on Study of the Earth's Deep Interior (2002-2006)
AGU Committee on Study of the Earth's Deep Interior (1998-2003)
U.S. Geodynamics Committee, National Research Council (1997-1999)
NSF National Resource Allocations Committee (1997-2001)
National Computational Science Alliance Peer Review Board (1997-2001)
NSF Peer Review Board for the Pittsburgh and Illinois Supercomputing Centers (1996-97)

Honors

Fellow, American Geophysical Union
Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2006 Institute of Physics of Ireland Distinguished Lecturer
1996 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award for Geodynamo Simulations
1996-1997 Associated Western Universities Distinguished Lecturer
1986 Los Alamos Distinguished Performance Award for Nuclear Winter Simulations
1980 Donald E. Billings Award for Solar Physics Simulations