David Fike, a member of the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, is among eleven WashU faculty members are among the nearly 500 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community.
AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. New fellows will be celebrated at a forum May 29 in Washington, D.C.
Fike, PhD, chair of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences, is the Glassberg/Greensfelder Distinguished University Professor in Art & Sciences. Fike uses geochemical analyses to investigate the links between biological activity, geological processes and ambient environmental conditions today and to reconstruct how they have varied over Earth’s history. His research focuses on the occurrence of past ice ages and the rise of atmospheric oxygen and its relationship to animal evolution and mass extinctions.
