MORTON K. BLAUSTEIN, A&S 1950, one of Baltimore's most active civic leaders and philanthropists, was a longtime University trustee and the chairman and chief executive officer of the American Trading and Production Corporation. He held a doctorate in petroleum geology and was appointed to the National Petroleum Council by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior. The Alumni Association presented Dr. Blaustein with its Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1976. The Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences is also named in memory of Dr. Blaustein, who died in 1990 at the age of 64. He also created, with others, the Chair in Music History and Criticism at the Peabody Conservatory.   The JACOB AND HILDA BLAUSTEIN FOUNDATION was was established by Morton Blaustein's mother, Hilda, and his father, Jacob, the Baltimore industrialist who founded the American Oil Company (Amoco). The foundation has provided significant support for various areas of the University and Hospital.

DARRYN W. WAUGH is the Morton K. Blaustein Professor and Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1991, was a post doc at MIT and Monash University, Australia, before joining the Hopkins faculty in 1998. His research is in atmospheric and oceanic science, with a focus on understanding global environmental issues such as stratospheric ozone depletion and climate change. He has participated in several NASA aircraft campaigns and international assessments, including being lead chapter author of the most recent WMO/UNEP "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion", and authored over 70 peer-reviewed articles.