Marine geologist given UNB chair

Larry Mayer, 38, a marine geologist, has been named the first holder of University of New Brunswick’s (UNB) newly created chair in ocean mapping. An associate professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Mayer will join UNB’s 14-member department of surveying engineering in May. The position will allow him to continue his investigations of the seafloor for clues to the history of the ocean basins and climate change.

Mayer holds a magna cum laude degree in geology and a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.