Lisa Tauxe

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Lisa Tauxe (* 1956 in Rochester , Minnesota ) is an American geophysicist who primarily deals with paleomagnetism . She teaches and researches at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego .

Career

Lisa Tauxe was born in Rochester, Minnesota, but lived in Switzerland for a while in her youth , where she attended the Ecole d'Humanité . She then returned to the United States and began studying at Yale University , which she graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978 . She then moved to Columbia University , where she received a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy in 1982 and a Ph.D. the following year. received his doctorate . Immediately after completing her university education, Tauxe began working at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego , where she is still active in research and teaching and is professor of geophysics .

Scientific work

Tauxe is one of the leading scientists in the field of paleomagnetism . She deals in particular with questions of paleointensity , the intensity of the earth's magnetic field in the historical course. In this context, she developed new experimental methods to measure the natural remanence of magnetized rocks and introduced new materials into the field, for example copper slag or basaltic glass . Tauxe also postulated a new theory of how sediments and sedimentary rocks acquire their paleomagnetic properties. In addition, she introduced new statistical methods to specify measurement results and their interpretation.

Overall, Tauxe is involved in almost 200 scientific publications and has written two textbooks.

Honors

In 1996 Tauxe was accepted into the American Geophysical Union , as well as in 2003 in the Geological Society of America , which presented her with the George P. Woollard Award in the same year . Admission to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011 was followed by the award of the Benjamin Franklin Medal and the Arthur L. Day Medal , both in 2014. In addition, Tauxe is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).

Personal

Tauxe is married to Hubert Staudigel , who also works as a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The couple have two sons.

Fonts

  • Paleomagnetic Principles and Practice, Kluwer 1998, 2003
  • Essentials of Paleomagnetism, University of California Press 2010
  • Sedimentary records of relative paleointensity of the geomagnetic field: theory and practice, Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 31, 1993, pp. 319-354
  • with TAT Mullender, T. Pick: Potbellies, wasp-waists, and superparamagnetism in magnetic hysteresis, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 101, 1996, pp. 571-583
  • with Peter A. Selkin: Long-term variations in palaeointensity, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A, Volume 358, 2000, pp. 1065-1088

Web links

  • Homepage on the pages of the University of California, San Diego

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Franklin Medal 2014 - Lisa Tauxe. fi.edu, April 2014, accessed December 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ KP Kodama: The 2014 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and Environmental Science presented to Lisa Tauxe, Ph.D. Journal of the Franklin Institute, Franklin Institute , Philadelphia , 2015, p. 2, doi : 10.1016 / j.jfranklin.2015.05.020
personal data
SURNAME Tauxe, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochester , Minnesota