Presidential Faculty Fellow

这个P.I.将对地球中的热对流进行研究，这是板块构造的驱动力，因此也是地震、火山和其他地质过程的驱动力。这项研究将有助于利用地幔流动与上覆板块相互作用的三维数值模型来理解对流驱动地质过程的机制。这项研究是独一无二的，因为她拥有将地球化学约束添加到对流地球物理模型中的专业知识。她将模拟地壳的特定基本表面特征(裂谷、热点和俯冲带)，试图找到产生它们所需的地幔模型的极限。

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.