Dick Walcott
Bornc.1933
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington
AwardsHector Medal (1993)
Charles A. Whitten Medal (1999)
Scientific career
InstitutionsVictoria University of Wellington
ThesisStructure and Petrology of the Red Hill Complex, Nelson (1965)

Richard Irving Walcott FRS (born c.1933) is a New Zealand geologist known for his work on plate tectonics.[1]

Walcott studied at Victoria University College, graduating with a BSc in 1962.[2] He then completed his PhD at Victoria University of Wellington in 1965, with a thesis on the Red Hill Complex at Nelson,[3] and was awarded a DSc by thesis from the same institution in 1981.[4] In 1966 he took up a postdoctoral research position at the University of British Columbia and the following year began working at the gravity division of Energy, Mines and Resources Canada.[5] He returned to New Zealand in 1975,[5] became professor of geology at Victoria in 1983,[1] retired in 1999,[6] and was granted the title of emeritus professor.[7]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1982,[8] and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991.[9] In 1993 he won the Royal Society of New Zealand's Hector Medal,[10] and in 1999 he was awarded the Charles A. Whitten Medal by the American Geophysical Union.[6]

The Walcott Névé in the Ross Dependency was named for Walcott by the northern party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition in 1961–62, of which he was the leader.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b Barrowman, Rachel (1999). Victoria University of Wellington, 1899–1999: a history. Wellington: Victoria University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-86473-369-6.
  2. ^ "NZ university graduates 1870–1961: U–Wh". Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  3. ^ Walcott, Richard (1965). Structure and Petrology of the Red Hill Complex, Nelson (PDF) (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16945564.
  4. ^ "Lithosphere mechanics". Victoria University of Wellington. 1981. Archived from the original on 17 October 2014. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b McKenzie, Dan P.; Walcott, Richard I. (7 March 2000). "Walcott receives 1999 Whitten medal". Eos. 81 (10): 103. Bibcode:2000EOSTr..81..103M. doi:10.1029/00eo00067.
  6. ^ a b "Scientist wins award". Waikato Times. 10 April 2000. p. 2.
  7. ^ "Richard Walcott". Victoria University of Wellington. 24 April 2012. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  8. ^ "The Academy: V–Z". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  9. ^ "List of Fellows of the Royal Society 1660–2007" (PDF). Royal Society. July 2007. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  10. ^ "Hector Medal". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
  11. ^ "Walcott Névé, Antarctica". www.geographic.org/. Retrieved 17 October 2014.

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