Arthur D. Cohen, a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, recently was named the 2005 recipient of the Gilbert H. Cady Award, an international honor given annually by the Coal Division of the Geological Society of America.
Cohen received the award in recognition of his outstanding achievements in coal and peat petrology. He has been conducting coal research for nearly 40 years and is internationally known for his studies of modern environments of coal formation.
Cohen helped establish peat petrology as a discipline and developed many of the techniques used today to study peat, including atomic force microscopy. His investigations in the Everglades were among the first to use oriented microtome sections to investigate peat formation. His studies in the Okefenokee and Snuggedy Swamps led to many papers on depositional models for shoreline-related coals.
He has authored or edited 10 books, more than 135 refereed papers, and hundreds of reports and abstracts. He has directed nine Ph.D. dissertations and 23 master’s theses. He established the only peat sample bank in the world and has made essential contributions to utilization of peat for remediation of hazardous wastes in the environment.
Cohen is past chair of the Coal Geology Division (1976), chair of the Peat Classification Committee of ASTM (1979-83), and President of the Society for Organic Petrology (1990). He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Coal Division in 1996 and Standards Development Award from ASTM in 1996.
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