Tanya Atwater

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

Life

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 was in 1972 his PhD at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. In 1965 she was in the summer months at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1966/67, she conducted research at the University of Santiago in Chile and 1970/71 at Stanford University ( in paleomagnetism ). In 1972, she was Assistant Professor at UCSD was in 1973/74 as an exchange Sciences activist of the National Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union and in 1974 was initially an 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 a professor emeritus and director of a multimedia center of the UCSB where among other things, plate tectonics is visualized. In 2002 she received the National Science Foundation Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

They looked at since the 1960s with the development and the formation of ocean floor at mid-ocean ridges within the plate tectonics and the reconstruction of the plate tectonic movements in the geological past. A focus of her work is the tectonics of the western part of North America and California, which since the Mesozoic of a subduction zone at a plate edge with horizontal displacement ( St. Andrew column) developed.

In 2009 she received the Leopold von Buch- badge. In 1980 she was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the AAAS. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS).

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

Writings

  • Henry William Menard Changes in direction of sea floor spreading, Nature, vol 219, 1968, pp. 463-467
  • Implications of plate tectonics for the Cenozoic tectonic evolution of western North America, Bull Geol Soc. Amer., Volume 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, p 1362-1374
  • Propagating rifts in seafloor spreading patterns, Nature, vol 290, 1980, pp. 185-186
  • Tectonics of the North East 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 Iceland, in PW Weigand (Eds. ) Contributions to the geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, MP 45, 1998, p.1 -8
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