Antarctica Mountain Named After Professor Bruce Luyendyk

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 It's not every day you get a mountain named in your honor. But UC Santa Barbara's Bruce Luyendyk, a professor emeritus of earth science, can claim exactly that rare accolade.

Mount Luyendyk, as the peak is now known, is situated in Antarctica's remote Fosdick Mountains, a place the tectonics expert knows well from his years conducting field research there.

It was two of Luyendyk's former Ph.D. students, Christine Siddoway and Chris Sorlien, who proposed the commemorative name, which the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) officially adopted January 19.

"Fundamentally, it is Bruce's research contributions to West Antarctica and science advocacy over 25 years that make him deserving of a place name designation," said Siddoway.
 

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Bruce Luyendyk

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Friday, April 22, 2016