Richard A. Kerr, also known as Dick Kerr,[1] is a science journalist and former staff writer for Science.[2]

Kerr received his BA in chemistry from the College of Wooster in 1968.[3][1] After working for a year as a research chemist in the Ocean Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, he spent three years as an officer on the fleet oiler USS Ponchatoula during the Vietnam War.[2][1] After leaving the Navy, Kerr earned his PhD in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he also "surreptitiously" took classes in magazine writing and news reporting.[4] In 1977, a week after defending his dissertation, he accepted a job as a geophysics writer for Science;[3] he was soon promoted to senior writer, and began covering Earth and planetary sciences.[4][1]

Kerr was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 1995.[1]

Honors and awards

References

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  3. 1 2 "Science's Richard Kerr Wins Planetary Science Journalism Award". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  4. 1 2 3 "2013 Prize Recipients | Division for Planetary Sciences". dps.aas.org. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  5. "Search Past Award Winners". American Meteorological Society. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
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  7. "Jim Shea Award". Awards. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  8. "AGI Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Understanding of the Geosciences". American Geosciences Institute. 2014-03-25. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  9. Kerr, Richard A. (2012-12-07). "Peering Inside the Moon to Read Its Earliest History". Science. 338 (6112): 1272. doi:10.1126/science.338.6112.1272. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23224531.
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