Prof. Dr. Michael Strasser has been awarded the 2017 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Japan Geoscience Union. The Taira prize honors an individual for "outstanding transdisciplinary research accomplishment in ocean drilling". The award ceremony and lecture are scheduled for the AGU Fall Meeting in December.
Read more about the Asahiko Taira prize here.