Susan Kieffer
Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer (born November 17, 1942 in Warren , Pennsylvania ) is an American geologist , geophysicist and planetologist . She is Professor of Geology and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
Kieffer studied at Allegheny College ( Bachelor in 1964) and at Caltech with a Masters degree in 1967 and a PhD in Planetary Science in 1971. As a post-doctoral student , she was at the University of California, Los Angeles , where she became Assistant Professor in 1973 and later Associate Professor has been. From 1978 to 1990 she was with the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff , where she was visiting professor at Caltech in 1982. From 1989 she was a professor at Arizona State University and from 1993 to 1995 at the University of British Columbia .
She dealt with the geophysical hydrodynamics of volcanoes, geysers and rivers, meteorite impacts and the shock wave metamorphosis and thermodynamics of minerals caused by them. She extended her (also experimental) investigations into the mechanisms of volcanic eruptions to include those in the solar system (moon Enceladus ). She also deals with solar physics.
In 1996 she founded her own consulting company Kieffer & Woo, from 2000 SW Kieffer Science Consulting. With Eugene Shoemaker she wrote a geological guide to the meteor crater (1974).
She received the Arthur L. Day Medal in 1992 and the Penrose Medal in 2014 . In 1995 she became a MacArthur Fellow . She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society . She is a member of the Geological Society of America , the American Geophysical Union, and the Mineralogical Society of America . From 1977 to 1979 she was a Sloan Research Fellow . She is an honorary doctorate from Allegheny College.
She has been married since 1966 and has one child.
Publications
- The Dynamics of Disaster , WW Norton & Co, New York 2013, ISBN 0-393-08095-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kieffer, Susan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kieffer, Susan Elizabeth Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warren , Pennsylvania |