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DEAN A. MCMANUS is professor emeritus in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. degree in geology from the Southern Methodist University in 1954 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in geology from the University of Kansas in 1957 and 1959, respectively. His marine geological research has dealt mainly with sediments on the floor of the Chukchi and Bering seas and off Washington State. He was co-chief scientist on the first cruise in the Pacific Ocean of the drilling vessel Glomar Challenger of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Deep-Sea Drilling Project. He has been honored by the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration for his marine geological research by having an underwater mountain in the North Pacific Ocean names after him, McManus Seamount. For 23 years he was editor of the research journal Marine Geology.
