William Winn Hay

William Winn Hay (born October 12, 1934 in Dallas ) is an American geologist .

Hay studied at Southern Methodist University with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's degree in 1958. He also studied at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Zurich and was a post-doctoral student for a year of the University of Basel. He received his doctorate from Stanford University in 1960 and was then assistant professor and later professor at the University of Illinois, which he remained until 1973. His dissertation was entitled A Study of the Velasco Formation of Northeastern Mexico . In 1968 he became professor of marine geology and geophysics at the University of Miami (Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, RSMS, of which he was dean from 1976 to 1980) and from 1982 professor at the University of Colorado (where he was adjunct professor at Rosenstiel School stayed). From 1982 to 1987 he was also director of the university museum there. In 1998 he retired in Colorado. From 1999 he was a professor at GEOMAR , where he was a regular visiting professor from 1990. He retired from Geomar in 2002 and lives in Estes Park, Colorado.

He was involved in various ocean deep drilling projects and in several JOIDES (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling) committees. From 1979 to 1982 he was President of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions in Washington DC, which is responsible for the JOIDES programs.

In 1993 he was Donder visiting professor at the University of Utrecht and in 1993 and 1996 at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde, and in 1996 he was visiting professor at the University of Greifswald. In 1995 and 2010 he was visiting professor at the Palaeontological Institute of the University of Vienna. From 1972 he was an honorary fellow at University College London .

He deals with paleoclimatology and palaeoceanography, taxonomy and biostratography of calcifying nanofossils and sedimentary mass balance.

He is a member of the Leopoldina and received the Leopold von Buch plaque in 1976 . In 1991 he received the Humboldt Research Award .

In 1987/88 he was President of the Society of Economic Palaeontologists and Mineralogists.

Fonts

• Experimenting on a Small Planet: A Scholarly Entertainment, Springer Verlag 2012 (on climate change and paleoclimatology)
• as editor: Studies in paleo-oceanography: based on a symposium sponsored by the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Tulsa, Oklahoma 1974
• The use of the electron microscope in the study of fossils, 1964
• Editor with William Ryan, Manik Talwani Deep drilling results in the Atlantic Ocean: continental margins and paleoenvironment , 2nd Maurice Ewing Symposium 1978, American Geophysical Union 1979
• Contributions in Enriqueta Barreira, Claudia Johnson (Ed.) Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean-Climate System , Geological Society of America Special Paper 332, 1999, e.g. B. Hays et al. a. Alternative global cretaceous paleogeography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. William Winn Hay at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 12, 2016.