Tanya Atwater

Tanya Atwater
Born (1942-08-27) August 27, 1942
Los Angeles, CA[1]
Residence Santa Barbara, CA
Fields Tectonics
Institutions University of California Santa Barbara
Alma mater Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tanya Atwater (born August 27, 1942) is a retired American geophysicist and marine geologist who specialized in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas Fault plate boundary. Her educational work focused on the creation of computer-animated multimedia products and presentations depicting plate tectonic histories.

Biography

Tanya Atwater was born in Los Angeles on August 27, 1942. Atwater received her B.A. in Geophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965, though she began her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] and is a University of California, San Diego Alumna, holding a Ph.D. (1972) in Marine Geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is director of the UCSB Educational Multimedia Visualization Center and an emerita professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at UCSB in 1980. Atwater retired from UCSB in 2007.[3]

Awards and honors

Selected bibliography

See also

Notes

  1. Atwater, Tanya. "Tanya Atwater". John A. Dutton e-Education Institute. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  2. Gates, Alexander E. (2003), ""Atwater, Tanya"", A to Z of earth scientists, New York: Facts on File, pp. 1012, ISBN 978-0816045808
  3. "EMVC Web Page".
  4. "AGU Fellows". Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  5. 1 2 Atwater, Tanya. "Faculty Accolades Earth Sciences, UC Santa Barbara". Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  6. "National Academy of Sciences, Member Directory".
  7. "Calling all geologists: Put your mental pictures here". Geotimes. American Geological Institute. July 2002. Retrieved 12 December 2012.

References

  • Dreyfus, Claudia (12 October 1999). "A conversation with/Tanya Atwater; She put the San Andreas Fault in its place". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 December 2012. 
  • Henderson, Andrea Kovacs (2009). "Atwater, Tanya Maria". American men & women of science : a biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological, and related sciences. 1 (26th ed.). Detroit, Mich.: Gale. p. 261. ISBN 978-1414433004. 
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