Presidential Faculty Fellow

这个私家侦探将对地球上的热对流进行研究， 地球是板块构造的驱动力， 地震、火山和其他地质作用。 这 研究将有助于了解机制， 对流通过使用三种 地幔流与地幔相互作用的三维数值模型 覆盖板。 这项研究是独一无二的，因为她有 为地球物理模型增加地球化学约束的专业知识 for conventional对流flow流. 她将模拟特定的基本表面 地壳特征（裂谷、热点和俯冲带）， 试图找到地幔模型的极限， 生产它们。

This P.I. will conduct research on thermal convection in the Earth, which is the driving force of plate tectonics and hence of earthquakes, volcanoes, and other geological processes. This research will help in the understanding of the mechanisms by which convection drives geological processes by using three dimensional numerical models of mantle flow interacting with overlying plates. The research is unique because she has the expertise to add geochemical constraints to geophysical models for convective flow. She will model specific fundamental surface features of the crust (rifts, hot spots, and subduction zones), trying to find the limits of the mantle models required to produce them.