George Bergantz received the Norman L. Bowen Award and Lecture from the
American Geophysical Union, a named lectureship which the organization presents annually to one or more mid-career or senior scientists in recognition of outstanding contributions to the fields of volcanology, geochemistry and petrology. The award reflects Bergantz’s innovative scientific contributions on the physics of magmas, hydrothermal systems, metamorphism, and eruption processes. As a member of the physical petrology group at UW, Bergantz studies the transport of magma in the Earth’s deep crust and mantle, as well as the life cycles of volcanic systems. Bergantz earned his bachelor’s in geological engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno, his master’s in geophysical sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his doctorate in Earth and planetary sciences at Johns Hopkins University before joining the UW faculty in 1988. He has done extensive field studies in Italy, Greece, Chile and Argentina, among other places, and is an elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America. Bergantz presented the Bowen Lecture in December 2021 at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting, held in New Orleans.