Presentation of the Mineralogical Society of America Award for 2023 to Shaunna M. Morrison

IF 2.7 3区 地球科学 Q2 GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS
Robert M. Hazen
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Shaunna M. Morrison is an amazing early-career scientist who has pioneered the application of powerful data analytical and visualization methods to understanding complex mineral systems through deep time. Through her scores of international seminars, frequent organization of meetings and workshops, mentorship of diverse early-career scientists, and bibliography of more than 90 peer-reviewed publications, including several ground-breaking contributions to mineralogy, Shaunna has garnered an exceptional international reputation. She is a born leader with the potential to become a scientific influencer of the first rank.Many of us have admired Dr. Morrison’s work for more than a decade, first when she was a graduate student with Robert Downs’s research group at the University of Arizona, and then at Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, where she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Manager for the ambitious Keck-sponsored Deep-Time Data-Driven Discovery (4D) Project before being named a Carnegie Research Scientist.Dr. Morrison’s first two breakthroughs relate to Mars mineral-ogy. She is a key member of the CheMin team—the first X-ray diffractometer to fly to another world (on the Mars Curiosity rover) and the first instrument to provide a vivid picture of mineralogy on another planet. That instrument was meant to take low-resolution powder diffraction patterns to identify major Mars minerals and their relative proportions. However, lacking internal X-ray standards, more quantitative results were thought to be impossible. What Shaunna realized—what others had missed—is that Mars minerals, themselves, can serve as internal X-ray standards. As a first step, she gathered mineral compositional data and applied statistical methods to develop regression curves for mineral unit-cell parameters. These calibration curves will be used for decades to come.In a second remarkable paper, Dr. Morrison solved the complex geometrical problem of using Mars minerals as their own internal standards to correct for errors in instrumental geometry, while calculating corrected cell parameters of Mars minerals. Many of us thought the exercise was impossible. She persevered, solved the geometric puzzle, and published the most definitive description of mineralogy on any planet beyond Earth. With Morrison’s creative correction methods, the instrumental resolution of CheMin is more than an order of magnitude better than the original NASA flight specifications.At the Carnegie Institution, Shaunna devoted herself to data-driven discovery in mineralogy. Leading a team of collaborators, her first effort focused on applications of network analysis to mineral systems. Shaunna realized that networks of mineral associations allow the analysis and visualization of mineral systems in dynamic, interactive renderings—a fresh approach to a centuries-old science. Developments in mineral informatics have since caused an explosion of discoveries, including applications to geochemistry, metagenomics, and paleobiology. Of special note is Shaunna’s application of “association analysis”—a collaboration with her colleague Anirudh Prabhu to discover new minerals and deposits of critical resources.These advances have not gone unnoticed. Shaunna Morrison receives numerous high-profile invitations, including during her tenure as MSA lecturer, and opportunities for keynote and plenary lectures at a dozen international conferences. She continues to organize frequent data science workshops, conference sessions, and “datathons,” for example as Co-chair of IMA’s Mineral Informatics Working Group. Dr. Morrison also speaks at scores of schools, mineral clubs, and retirement communities about mineralogy. And Shaunna and colleagues in education recently won a national 4H Club competition to develop an outreach program on Mars exploration and mineralogy—an effort that is reaching tens of thousands of children.Two other traits impress Shaunna’s colleagues. First is a desire to seek out scientists with expertise different from her own. One example: she uses network analysis to link the seemingly disparate fields of proteomics, microbial ecology, geochemistry, and mineralogy into a single framework. Working as a member of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute, she is looking for previously hidden relationships among chemical environments and protein expression. That effort is remarkably creative and cross-disciplinary, requiring thoughtful and dynamic leadership of a team of diverse experts.The second closely related trait is Dr. Morrison’s exceptional ability to inspire and organize others from diverse fields. Perhaps this unusual leadership approach comes from her years co-owning and operating a successful pizza restaurant in Georgia. Perhaps it reflects her passion to reach out to numerous groups beyond the professional science establishment. It is perhaps unique in mineralogical science for a young scientist six years from the Ph.D. to list more than 180 collaborators on her diverse publication list. As she plots her scientific future, her ability to work with and inspire others will play a vital role in her growing influence and her likely rise to the highest levels of the scientific world. For these reasons, Shaunna M. Morrison is richly deserving of the 2023 Mineralogical Society of America Award.
向 Shaunna M. Morrison 颁发 2023 年度美国矿物学会奖
肖娜-莫里森(Shaunna M. Morrison)是一位了不起的早期职业科学家,她率先应用强大的数据分析和可视化方法,通过深层时间了解复杂的矿物系统。通过她举办的数十场国际研讨会、频繁组织的会议和研讨会、对不同的早期职业科学家的指导,以及90多篇同行评议出版物(包括对矿物学的若干突破性贡献),Shaunna赢得了卓越的国际声誉。她是一位天生的领导者,有潜力成为第一流的科学影响者。在被任命为卡内基研究科学家之前,她曾在卡内基地球与行星实验室(Carnegie's Earth and Planets Laboratory)担任博士后研究员和雄心勃勃的凯克赞助的深度时间数据驱动发现(4D)项目的项目经理。莫里森博士的前两项突破与火星矿物学有关。她是CheMin团队的重要成员,CheMin是第一台飞往另一个世界的X射线衍射仪(搭载在好奇号火星探测器上),也是第一台生动描绘另一个星球矿物学的仪器。这台仪器的目的是获取低分辨率的粉末衍射图样,以确定主要的火星矿物及其相对比例。然而,由于缺乏内部 X 射线标准,人们认为不可能获得更多的定量结果。Shaunna 意识到,火星矿物本身就可以作为内部 X 射线标准。作为第一步,她收集了矿物成分数据,并运用统计方法为矿物单元参数绘制了回归曲线。在第二篇杰出的论文中,莫里森博士解决了一个复杂的几何问题,即利用火星矿物作为自己的内部标准来校正仪器几何中的误差,同时计算火星矿物的校正晶胞参数。我们中的许多人都认为这是不可能完成的任务。她坚持不懈,解决了几何难题,发表了对地球以外任何行星矿物学最权威的描述。通过莫里森创造性的修正方法,CheMin 的仪器分辨率比美国国家航空航天局最初的飞行规格高出一个数量级以上。在卡内基研究所,肖娜致力于数据驱动的矿物学发现。在卡内基研究所,Shaunna 致力于矿物学的数据驱动发现。她带领一个合作团队,首先致力于将网络分析应用于矿物系统。Shaunna意识到,通过矿物关联网络可以对矿物系统进行动态、交互式的分析和可视化呈现,这是一门具有百年历史的科学的全新方法。此后,矿物信息学的发展带来了爆炸性的发现,包括在地球化学、元基因组学和古生物学中的应用。特别值得一提的是 Shaunna 对 "关联分析 "的应用--她与同事 Anirudh Prabhu 合作发现了新矿物和重要资源的矿藏。Shaunna Morrison 收到了许多高规格的邀请,包括在她担任 MSA 讲师期间,以及在十几个国际会议上发表主题演讲和全体演讲的机会。她还经常组织数据科学研讨会、会议和 "数据马拉松",例如担任国际矿业协会矿产信息学工作组的联合主席。莫里森博士还在许多学校、矿物俱乐部和退休社区发表有关矿物学的演讲。最近,Shaunna 和从事教育工作的同事在全国 4H 俱乐部竞赛中获胜,赢得了开发火星勘探和矿物学推广项目的机会。首先,她希望寻找与自己专业知识不同的科学家。举个例子:她利用网络分析将蛋白质组学、微生物生态学、地球化学和矿物学这些看似不同的领域联系到一个框架中。作为美国国家航空航天局天体生物学研究所(NASA's Astrobiology Institute)的成员,她正在寻找化学环境和蛋白质表达之间以前隐藏的关系。这项工作具有非凡的创造性和跨学科性,需要深思熟虑、充满活力地领导一支由不同专家组成的团队。第二个密切相关的特质是莫里森博士具有激发和组织来自不同领域的其他人的非凡能力。也许这种与众不同的领导方法源于她多年来在佐治亚州共同经营一家成功的披萨店。或许,这反映了她向专业科学机构以外的众多群体伸出援手的热情。对于一位距离博士毕业还有六年的年轻科学家来说,这也许是矿物学领域独一无二的。 在她发表的各种论文中,有 180 多位合作者。在她规划自己的科学未来时,她与他人合作并激励他人的能力将在她不断扩大的影响力中发挥至关重要的作用,她也很有可能跻身科学界的最高层。基于以上原因,Shaunna M. Morrison 荣获 2023 年度美国矿物学会奖实至名归。
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American Mineralogist
American Mineralogist 地学-地球化学与地球物理
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5.20
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276
审稿时长
1 months
期刊介绍: American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials (Am Min), is the flagship journal of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA), continuously published since 1916. Am Min is home to some of the most important advances in the Earth Sciences. Our mission is a continuance of this heritage: to provide readers with reports on original scientific research, both fundamental and applied, with far reaching implications and far ranging appeal. Topics of interest cover all aspects of planetary evolution, and biological and atmospheric processes mediated by solid-state phenomena. These include, but are not limited to, mineralogy and crystallography, high- and low-temperature geochemistry, petrology, geofluids, bio-geochemistry, bio-mineralogy, synthetic materials of relevance to the Earth and planetary sciences, and breakthroughs in analytical methods of any of the aforementioned.
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