NORMAN SLEEP - STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Department of Geophysics, Mitchell Bldg 373A, Stanford, CA 94305-2215
Phone:  650-723-0882     Fax:  650-725-7344     Email:  norm@pangea.stanford.edu

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Will work with Kevin Zahnle on investigating the potential for habitability of Earth-like planets in Venus like orbits, and will collaborate with O.B. Toon and Kevin Zahnle on the consequences of impacts for Mars.  He will also consider serpentine as a potential biotic and prebiotic environment.

Related Experience Summary

Author of numerous peer -reviewed papers on solid-earth geophysics and planetary habitability.
Author of Principles of Geophysics published by Blackwell Science Ltd.

Employment History

1993-present Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University
1984-93 Professor of Geophysics and Geology, Stanford University
1979-84 Associate Professor of Geophysics and Geology, Stanford University
1973-79 Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Northwestern University
1973 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Education

1973 Ph.D. Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1969 M.S. Geophysics, Massachusetts Institute of Technolody
1967 B.S. Mathematics, Michigan State University

Professional Societies

American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of America
American Association  for the Advancement of Science

Awards and Honors

1999 Member, National Academy of Sciences
1998 Walter H. Bucher Medal, American Geophysical Union
1997 Wegener Medal, European Union of Geosciences
1993 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1991 George P. Woollard Award, Geological Society of America
1984 Fellow, Geological Society of America
1980 James B. Macelwane Award, American Geophysical Union
1980 Fellow, American Geophysical Union

Selected Relevant Publications

G. Schubert, S.C. Solomon, D.L. Turcotte, M.J. Drake, and N.H. Sleep, Origin and thermal evolution of Mars, in Mars, edited by H. H. Kieffer, B. M. Jakosky, C. W. Snyder, and M. S. Matthews, pp. 147-183, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1992.

Sleep, N.H.. Archean plate tectonics: what can be learned from continental geology? Can. J. Earth Sci., v. 29, pp. 2066-2071, 1992.

Sleep, N.H. Martian plate tectonics. J. Geophys. Res., v. 99, pp. 5639-5655, 1994.

Sleep, N. H., Plate tectonics and the evolution of climate, Rev. Geophys. Suppl., v. 33, pp. 199-203, 1995.

Zahnle, K. J., and N. H. Sleep, Impacts and the early evolution of life, in Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life, edited by P. J. Thomas, C. F. Chyba, and C. P. McKay, pp. 175-208,

Springer, New York, 1997.

Sleep, N. H., and K. Zahnle, Refugia from asteroid impacts on early Mars and the early Earth, J. Geophys. Res., v. 103, pp. 28,529-28,544, 1998.

Sleep, N. H., Evolution of the mode of convection within terrestrial planets, J. Geophys. Res., v. 105, pp. 17,563-17,578, 2000.

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