From left: Robert Scott and Loren Kroenke aboard D/V Glomar Challenger (ship), 1978. Loren Kroenke, emeritus faculty researcher in the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology ( SOEST ), died on May 17, at the age of 84. As a geophysicist at the Hawaiʻi Institute of Geophysics and Planetology ( HIGP ) in SOEST since 1963, Kroenke focused his research activities on understanding Pacific Plate motion, hot spot volcanism, and the formation and history of the Ontong Java Plateau, a massive oceanic plateau that represents the largest volcanic event of the past 200 million years.

https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2023/05/25/in-memoriam-loren-kroenke/

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