Tanya Atwater

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Tanya Maria Atwater (born August 27, 1942 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American geophysicist and marine geologist .

Life

Tanya Atwater studied from 1960 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in geophysics in 1965 and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she received her doctorate in 1972 from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been. In 1965 she spent the summer months at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute , 1966/67 she did research at the University of Santiago in Chile and 1970/71 at Stanford University (in paleomagnetism). In 1972 she became an assistant professor at UCSD and was an exchange scientist at the 1973/74National Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and was from 1974 assistant professor and later associate professor of marine geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1980 she was a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Today she is Professor Emeritus there and director of a multimedia center of the UCSB, at which, among other things, plate tectonics is visualized. In 2002 she received the National Science Foundation Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

Since the 1960s she has dealt with the development and formation of the sea floor on mid-ocean ridges within plate tectonics and with the reconstruction of plate tectonic movements in the geological past. One focus of her work is the tectonics of the western part of North America and California, which has developed from a subduction zone to a plate edge with horizontal displacement (St. Andreas Fissure) since the Mesozoic .

In 2009 she received the Leopold von Buch plaque and in 2019 the Penrose Medal . In 1980 she received the Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science . She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From 1975 to 1977 she was a Sloan Research Fellow . She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Geological Society .

Fonts

  • with Henry William Menard Changes in direction of sea floor spreading , Nature, Volume 219, 1968, pp. 463-467
  • Implications of plate tectonics for the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America , Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., Vol. 81, 1970, pp. 3513-3536.
  • with Peter Molnar Relative motion of the Pacific and North American plates deduced from seafloor spreading in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific Oceans , UCSD, Scripps Institution of Oceanography., Contributions, Volume 44, 1974, pp. 1362-1374
  • Propagating rifts in seafloor spreading patterns , Nature, Volume 290, 1980, pp 185-186
  • Tectonics of the Northeast Pacific , Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume 1, 1991, pp. 295-318.
  • Plate Tectonic History of Southern California with emphasis on the Western Transverse Ranges and Santa Rosa Island , in PW Weigand (editor) Contributions to the geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California , American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, MP 45, 1998 , Pp. 1-8

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Atwater, Tanya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Atwater, Tanya Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marine geologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California