Prof. H. Wayne Nesbitt
Fellow
Current Employer
Western University
Election Year
2009
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Earth Sciences
Department
Department of Earth Sciences
Keywords
Climate, Earth-Evolution, Geochemistry, paleoclimatology, Environmental Geology
Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His research has changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today.
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NESBITT, H. Wayne –Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario
Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His major papers between 1978 and 1995 address the relations between chemical weathering of the crust, and recent and ancient climatic conditions (of great importance to the global warming debate). These papers have changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. Most of his research since 1994 addresses the detailed reactions at mineral surfaces using modern surface sensitive probes. These most recent studies are fundamental to all recent dissolution studies of minerals in aqueous solution.
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NESBITT, H. Wayne –Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario
Wayne Nesbitt has made outstanding contributions to geochemical weathering both at the macro-scale and more recently at the nano-scale. His major papers between 1978 and 1995 address the relations between chemical weathering of the crust, and recent and ancient climatic conditions (of great importance to the global warming debate). These papers have changed the emphasis of the way Sedimentary Petrogenesis is taught today. Most of his research since 1994 addresses the detailed reactions at mineral surfaces using modern surface sensitive probes. These most recent studies are fundamental to all recent dissolution studies of minerals in aqueous solution.
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