NSF Young Investigator

NSF 青年研究员

• 批准号: 9258626
• 负责人: Sarah Kruse
• 金额: $ 11.9万
• 依托单位: Eckerd College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 1996-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9258626&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Young; Investigator

Funds are provided for a 5-year Young Investigator award to SARAH KRUSE, a geophysicists whose central interest is in the mechanical properties of the Earth's crust. Her present and future work concentrates upon fracture zones, the large faults in the ocean's crust. She has found that the occurrence of high heat flow from volcanism is associated with weakening of fracture zones and is exploring data on the distribution of stress in order to determine whether the volcanism causes the weakening, or whether pre-existing weak zones permit an increase in the volcanism. Other work includes variations in morphology of some Pacific fracture zones, modeling of continental deformation in the Colorado plateau, and tectonics of the Adriatic Sea. In teaching she makes an active effort to bring more understanding of physics to other sciences, and plans to develop two field courses in geophysics. She also plans to have all senior students participate in research projects as part of a required seminar course.

基金提供了一个为期5年的青年研究员奖， 莎拉·克鲁斯是一位哲学家，他的中心兴趣是 地壳的力学性质她的现在和未来 工作集中在断裂带上， 海洋的地壳。 她发现高热流的出现 与断裂带的弱化有关， 正在探索压力分布的数据， 确定火山活动是否导致弱化，或者 预先存在的薄弱地带使火山活动增加。其他 工作包括一些太平洋断裂的形态变化 带，模拟大陆变形在科罗拉多高原， 和亚得里亚海的构造在教学中，她积极地 努力将物理学的更多理解带到其他科学中， 并计划开设两门物理学实地课程。她还 计划让所有高年级学生参加研究项目 作为必修研讨课程的一部分