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May 13, 2003

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UCSD ECONOMIST, SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHER ELECTED
TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES FOR 2003

An economist at the University of California, San Diego, and an oceanographer at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) have been elected Fellows in the class of 2003 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).

Vincent P. Crawford, UCSD professor of economics, and Lynne D. Talley, SIO professor of oceanography, are among 187 Fellows from across the nation and 29 Foreign Honorary Members named to the Academy, an international society of the world’s leading scientists, scholars, artists, business people, and public leaders.

“Election to the American Academy is an honor that acknowledges the best of all scholarly fields and professions,” said Academy president Patricia Meyer Spacks. “Newly elected Fellows are selected through a highly competitive process that recognizes those who have made preeminent contributions to their disciplines.”

A well known economic theorist, Crawford has received numerous honors for research in microeconomics and game theory. In selecting him as a Fellow, the AAAS describes him as a “game theorist whose analysis (with [UCSD economics professor Joel] Sobel) of strategic information transmission has defined the direction of subsequent research on communication in games … His recent work focuses on behavioral and experimental game theory.”

Crawford has received numerous National Science Foundation grants, as well as other grants and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is a member of the Council of the Game Theory Society and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Crawford received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University and a doctorate in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been on the UCSD faculty since 1976.

Talley is a member of the physical oceanography and climate curricular groups at SIO. She describes her main research interest as “the circulation and water mass distribution of the world ocean, including the formation of intermediate water masses and observations useful for understanding large-scale dynamical processes common to most ocean basins.” She is a seagoing oceanographer, having led a number of hydrographic cruises, and her current projects include joint Russian/Korean/Japanese/U.S. studies of water mass formation processes in the Okhotsk and Japan Seas.

Talley is an editor of the Journal of Physical Oceanography, a member of the National Research Council’s Climate Research Committee, co-chair of the U.S. Repeat Hydrography Oversight committee, the councilor for Physical Oceanography for the Oceanography Society, and a University Corporation for Atmospheric Research trustee.

Talley received a bachelor’s degree in physics from Oberlin College and a bachelor of music in piano performance from Oberlin Conservatory. She holds a doctorate in physical oceanography from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program. She has been on the SIO faculty since 1984.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, based in Cambridge, Mass., was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, and John Hancock and was chartered “to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.” Its current membership includes more than 150 Nobel laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Among its goals is to honor excellence by electing to membership men and women in fields ranging from mathematics to medicine, computer science to literary criticism, and public affairs to the performing arts.

New members will be welcomed at the annual Induction Ceremony at Academy headquarters in Cambridge in October. For further information on the AAAS or its members call Suzanne Morse at (617) 576-5047.