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Preface to the Jim Papike special issue

¹ Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, 87131, U.S.A.
² Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87544, U.S.A.
³ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, U.S.A.

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Everyone has a Jim Papike story. Okay, this is a slight exaggeration—but only slight. In the course of his career Jim has been a major presence at six institutions and has influenced the research community through participation and leadership in over 40 national committees spanning everything from Apollo Site Selection and Continental Scientific Drilling to DOE working groups on geologic disposal of nuclear waste. He is active in and has been an officer or councilor in the Mineralogical Society of America (president), the American Geophysical Union, the Geochemical Society (president), the Society of Economic Geologists, the National Academy of Sciences, the Universities Space Research Association, and numerous other professional organizations. In sum, he has been a presence at institutions of amazing diversity across the breadth and depth of this country and overseas. More than this, Jim has a prominent physical and intellectual presence that leaves an impression not just on the scientists he interacts with, but also the public. In his travels, Jim is famous for escapades as well as research. If you don’t have a Jim Papike story and want to know what one might be like, read some of his papers but then rent the movie Big Fish and picture the protagonist as a cowboy/geologist. So, everyone (just about) does have a Jim Papike story.

Depending on who is telling the story, Jim is a mineralogist, a petrologist, a geochemist, a geological engineer, a specialist in planetary regoliths, a meteoriticist, a hockey player, an ice fisherman extraordinaire, or a ranger to name a few. Take your . . . [Full Text of this Article]