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GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES AT BROWN UNIVERSITY THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008: Thomas A. Mutch, 1931-1980 Thomas A. "Tim" Mutch was born on August 26, 1931, in Rochester, New York. He received his B.A. in history at Princeton University in 1952. Tim's interest in mountain climbing, exploration, and Earth history led to his focus in Geology. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1960. Tim became an Assistant Professor of Geology at Brown University in 1960. For the next several years he taught courses in Stratigraphy, Planetary Geology, and Exploration. He authored two books, "The Geology of the Moon: Startigraphic View", and, with several colleagues, "The Geology of Mars." Tim also led the Lander Imaging Team from the Viking Mission to Mars. Tim disappeared on October 6, 1980, while descending the 23,410 foot high peak of Mt. Nun in the Kashmir Himalayas. At the time of his death, he was on leave from Brown University, serving as Associate Administrator for Space Science at NASA. NASA administrator Dr. Robert A. Frosch honored Tim by renaming the Viking 1 Lander spacecraft on Mars, "The Thomas A. Mutch Memorial Station." The Thomas "Tim" Mutch Memorial Fund was established in 1981 by his family and friends, to honor Tim's memory as a scholar, teacher, explorer, author, administrator and involved citizen. One of the purposes of the fund is to honor those who have shown intellectual courage and resolve in exploring important areas of the Solar System, and to bring them to Brown to share their results through the Tim Mutch Lectures. Recent Mutch Lecturers October, 2007: Col. David R. Scott, Commander of the Apollo 15 Mission to the Moon. "Voyage to the Moon: The Apollo 15 Mission to Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains" September, 2006: Dr. Michael Carr, of the U.S. Geological Survey, "The Geologic History of Mars: Recent Developments in a Rapidly Evolving Story". April, 2006: Torrence Johnson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Moons I Have Known: Strange Worlds of the Outer Solar System." May, 2005: John Grotzinger, MIT. "Geologic Context for Past Surface and Groundwater at Merdiani Planum Mars" October, 2004: Dr. Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator, Mars Exploration Rovers. "Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission" May, 2003: Dr. Michael Mange, Assc. Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley. "Water, Heat and Earthquakes of the Oregon Cascades" October 2003: Dr. Edward M. Stolper, Professor of Geological & Planetary Science, CalTech. "Results of the Hawaii Scientific Drilling Project" April 2002: Dr. James Garvin, PhD '84, Mars Exploration Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters. "Enigmas and NASA's Mars Exploration Program" September 2002: Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, PhD '70, Odysset Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "The Odyssey Mission to Mars: Recent Results and Future Plans" |
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