Dr. Peter Vogt, a marine geophysicist in NRL's Marine Geosciences
Division, has been recognized by the University of Bergen, Norway,
for his "international scientific role based on wide-ranging
and innovative research in the fields of marine geology and geophysics,
in particular in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea and the Arctic Ocean."
The University Senate, which also commended Dr. Vogt for his
"long-standing, active collaboration with the Earth Science
community" at that university, will award him an Honorary
Doctorate degree on August 25, 2000, in the Viking-era Haakon's
Hall in Bergen. After the ceremony, Dr. Vogt will give a guest
lecture on the marine geology and geophysics of the Norwegian-Greenland
Sea.
Sent to Norway by NRL in 1978
to conduct joint investigations with Norwegian scientists, Dr.
Vogt learned Norwegian and has maintained the language through
the years while conducting research aboard Norwegian ships. His
guest lecture will therefore be presented in Norwegian. Independently,
on 17 March, Dr. Vogt was also elected one of four new foreign
members (two from the United States) of The Norwegian Academy
of Science and Letters.
Dr. Vogt has conducted much of his research at sea, on vessels
of several nations. In 1998, he and his colleagues visited the
ocean floor aboard the MIR submersibles of "Titanic"
movie fame, and last year he and a scientist-colleague from the
University of Bergen spent one week each near the ocean floor
aboard the US Navy nuclear research submarine NR-1.
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