Mineralogical Magazine; April 2002; v. 66; no. 2;
p. 367-368
© 2002 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
2001 Max Hey Medal
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Presentation by the President, Dr David Morgan, to Dr Andrew Kerr, 8 January 2002
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The Max Hey Medal is awarded for research of excellence carried out by a young worker within the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, petrology or geochemistry. This year it is awarded to Dr Andrew Kerr for contributions to our understanding of the British Tertiary Igneous Province, and mechanisms of magma generation within crust and mantle systems.
Andrew, you graduated from St Andrews in 1990 with a first class honours degree in geochemistry, having carried out your final-year dissertation on granites and associated metasediments from Rossing, Namibia. You moved to Durham for your PhD research, which was on the geochemistry and petrogenesis of the Mull and Morvern Tertiary lava succession. This and subsequent work on what used to be called ‘Mull Petrology’ is covered in nearly half of your 35 peer-reviewed papers to date, and has provided new petrogenetic insights, particularly of the BTIP. Following your PhD, you moved to Leicester as a NERC post-doctoral fellow where you first started to investigate the structure and petrogenesis of the Caribbean–Colombian obducted oceanic plateau, a topic covered in another 12 of your refereed papers. From 1996 to 1998 you held a Leverhulme Fellowship at Leicester to research the relationship between large igneous provinces and global mass extinction, and this generated two thought-provoking papers. From 1998 to 2000 you obtained a post-graduate teaching qualification and followed this up by a period as a science teacher at Trinity School, Northampton. However, you remained . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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