Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae

RICHARD JOHN O’CONNELL
Date of Birth: August 27, 1941; Helena, Montana
Present Address: 249 Jerusalem Road, Cohasset, MA 02025
Office Address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University,
20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; 617/495-2532, FAX: 617/495-8839
email: Richard OConnell@Harvard.edu


Academic Degrees:
B. S. (Physics) California Institute of Technology, 1963
M. S. (Geology) California Institute of Technology, 1966
Ph.D. (Geophysics) California Institute of Technology, 1969

Positions Held:
Research Fellow, Geophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1969–1970
Research Geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles,
1970–1971
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University, 1971–1974
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University, 1974–1977
Visiting Researcher, Institut de Physique du Globe, Universit´e Paris VI, 1976
Visiting Researcher, Department of Geophysics, Cambridge University, 1976
Member, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University, 1971–1986
Director, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University, 1983–1986
Professeur Invit´e, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, 2004
Visiting Miller Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Jan–May 2013
Professor of Geophysics, Harvard University, 1977–

Professional Societies:
American Geophysical Union, Fellow
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow
Geological Society of America
Honors and Awards:
Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 1987
Inge Lehmann Medal, American Geophysical Union, 2000
Arthur L. Day Medal, Geological Society of America, 2001
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
Augustus Love Medal, European Geosciences Union, 2008

Service:
Working Group 5 (Physical Properties of the Earth’s Interior), IUGG Commission on Geodynamics 1971–
1974
Advisory Editorial Board, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1974–1978
NASA Lunar and Planetary Review Panel, 1977–1978
Advisory Editorial Board, Tectonophysics, 1981–1987
Geophysics Panel, NASA Earth System Science Committee, 1985–1986
Committee on Earth Sciences, Space Science Board, 1985–1987
Geophysics Study Committee, National Research Council, 1985–1988
Visiting Science Committee, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, 1986–1987
Board of Directors, Universities Space Research Association, 1984–90; Chairman, 1988-1990
Convener, Lunar and Planetary Science Council (USRA), 1984–1988
Earth Sciences Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 1985-1989
NASA Solid Earth Science Coolfont Report Panel, 1989
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics Advisory Committee, Los Alamos National Lab, 1983–1993
Steering Committee, University Navstar Consortium, 1983–1994; Chairman, 1989–1994
Consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1980–
Consultant, AMOCO Tulsa Research Center, 1984–1999
Consultant, Rockwell International, 1984–1987
Visiting Committee, SUNY Stony Brook, Earth Sciences Dept, 1986
Visiting Committee, University of Washington Geophysics Program, 1990
CSEDI Coordinating Committee, Chairman, 1992–1996
UCAR Universities Relations Committee, 1994–1997
Earth Sciences Instrumentation and Facilities Program Review Panel, National Science Foundation, 1995–1998
Editor, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 1996–1999
NSF Center for High Pressure Research Advisory Committee, 1997–2001
Editor, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 1999–2003
Advisory Committee, Consortium for Materials Properties Research in Earth Sciences, 2002–2008
Advisory Committee, Meetings for Young Researchers in Earth Sciences (MYRES), 2003–2005
AGU Tectonophysics Section, President–elect, 2004–2006; President, 2006–2008
American Geophysical Union, Council, 2004–2008
AGU Whitten Medal Committee, 2004–2006
EGU Love Medal Committee 2008–2011
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Membership Committee, Class I, Section 4, 2010–
AGU Lehmann Medal Committee, 2011–

Students
Ph.D.: Alex Woronow (1975), J. Peter Watt (1978), Bradford Hager (1978), Carl Gable (1989), Shimon
Wdowinski (1990), Bruce Buffett (1990), Winston Tao (1991), Michael Manga (1994), Bernhard Steinberger
(1996), Thorsten Becker (2002), James Kellogg (2004), Diana Valencia (2008), Wade Henning
(2011), John Crowley (2012), Athena Eyster (current).