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Peter Kelemen

Peter Kelemen
Peter Kelemen
Peter Kelemen
Peter Kelemen
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Jackson, Matthew
Peter Kelemen
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01/01/2003
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Caption from Oceanus magazine, Vol. 42, No. 2, Pg. 42:
Peter Kelemen was at WHOI, as a postdoc and scientist, for 15 years. During this time he and his wife, Rachel Cox, acquired a house, two kids, and Rachel’s Ph.D. in physiology from Boston University Medical School. During the first four of his six years as an undergraduate, Kelemen was an English and philosophy major at Dartmouth College. He then realized he would need to get a job when he graduated. In the meantime, he learned technical climbing techniques. He reasoned that it would be best to work outside in the mountains, and so switched to a major in Earth sciences. In 1980, Peter and friends founded Dihedral Exploration, a consulting company specializing in “extreme terrain mineral exploration.” Until 1991, he split his time between geological research and mineral exploration, in the process obtaining a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. As a mineral exploration consultant and research scientist, Kelemen has been fortunate to work in the mountains of California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Peru, the Yukon, Alaska, the Indian Himalaya, and Karakorum Ranges, East Greenland, along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, and in the Oman ophiolite, where oceanic crust has been thrust on land. In 2004, he became the Arthur D. Storke Professor at Columbia University.
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