The award was established at the San Diego Foundation in 1996 to improve the quality of life for the world and to advance all areas of science. Each year, a 12-member panel of scientific experts announces a new environmental topic and selects the individual or team that has done the best and most creative work during the previous two years in solving a world environmental problem. Darrell Henry, professor, Geology and Geophysics Darrell Henry became interested in geology upon learning how much travel was involved. Since he made the switch from chemistry to geology, his work has led him around the world. The LSU professor, shown here in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana, has been conducting extensive field research to learn more about the history of the early Earth.
P laying detective can be enjoyable, no matter what puzzle needs to be solved.
Whether it's the latest whodunit novel or the sordid details behind the sock-thieving monster in the dryer, solving any mystery can be greatly satisfying. Darrell Henry, a professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, plays the role of a detective in a much older, much different kind of case. Henry uses the secrets buried deep within rocks to piece together the little-known history of the early Earth. A career as a natural detective was not what Henry originally intended. Since his college days, Henry's research has led him to a wide variety of places, including the hills of northwestern Maine, the coast of southwestern Oregon, Beartooth Mountains of Montana, Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, the Highlands of Scotland, the Alps in Switzerland and the Czech Republic.