F. Earl Ingerson Lecture Series

The F. Earl Ingerson Lecture Series honors the Geochemical Society's first President. The recipient is selected annually by the GS Board of Directors to present the Ingerson lecture at the GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition. Title links go to the lecture's abstract.

Year	Lecturer	Title
2009	W. Berry Lyons	Riverine Geochemistry and Chemical Weathering and Carbon Fluxes Across Panama
2008	John Morse	Nanoscale Insights into the Mechanisms Responsible for the Strange Kinetic and Solubility Behavior of Aragonite in Seawater
2007	Terry Plank	Squeezing Water from a Stone (Water in Arc Magmas)
2006	Robert Aller	Tropical deltaic systems as unsteady diagenetic reactors, global C incinerators, and reverse weathering centers
2005	Adina Paytan	A New Look Into the Marine Phosphorus Cycle
2004	Roberta L. Rudnick	Geochemical Probing of Continental Dynamics
2003	Emily M. Klein	Geochemical Variability of Ocean Ridge Basalts and Constraints on Mantle and Crust Melt Distribution
2002	Susan L. Brantley	Eating and Breathing at the Water-Rock Interface
2001	Miriam Kastner	Methane Hydrates Characterization and Role in Past and Future Climate Change
2000	Lynn M. Walter	Carbon Cycling in Earth's Surface Reservoirs; Perspectives from Field Scale Studies
1999	David Walker	Core Participation in Mantle Geochemistry
1998	Susan W. Kieffer	Geochemical Dependence of Physical Processes During the Impact at Chicxulub Yucatan
1997	Akimasa Masuda	Progress Expected in REE Geochemistry
1996	Edward M. Stolper	Adiabatic Melting of the Mantle
1994	John Hayes	Process-oriented biogeochemical reconstructions made possible by molecular-isotopic studies
1992	H.C. Helgeson	Organobiohydrothermal geochemistry: What is it, who needs it, and why?
1990	R.K. O'Nions	Fluids in the formation and evolution of the continental crust
1988	A.E. Ringwood

Fred Earl Ingerson
(1906-1993)

A native of Barstow, Texas, F. Earl Ingerson received his B.A. Chemistry in 1928 and M.A. Geology in 1931, both from Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. His Ph.D. work was completed at Yale University in 1934. He spent the next year as a post-doc at the University of Innsbruck before joining the Geophysical Laboratory in 1935.

Seeing a need for a community that would advance the application of chemistry to the solution of geological problems, he lead the creation of the Geochemical Society in 1955 and served as GS President (1956-1957).

Earl moved to the USGS in 1947 where he was the Chief of the Geochemistry and Petrology Branch. In 1958, he left the USGS to become a geology professor at the University of Texas – Austin, where he remained, eventually in emeritus, until his death in 1993.

The Ingerson Lecture Series honors the founder of our society and highlights exciting research by one of our members. It is given at the Annual GSA meeting.