Richard S. Fiske

 

Dr. Fiske, a volcanologist, attended Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities and was an American Chemical Society Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Tokyo in 1960-1961. He was a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1963 to 1976, where he carried out research on the volcanoes of Hawaii and the Sierra Nevada, California. He moved to the Smithsonian Institution in 1976, served as Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History from 1980 to 1985, and currently maintains an active research program on the volcanoes of Hawaii. In collaboration with the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC), he is also involved with study of the newly recognized sea-floor caldera volcanoes south of Japan, particularly the giant submarine eruptions from these volcanoes and the potentially valuable mineral deposits that they host.

 

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