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I feel a profound delight in, love for, reverence for the natural world. My parents gave me this gift of passion and my goal is to pass it on to as many minds as I possibly can. I believe that caring involves deep familiarity and understanding. Thus, my job as a geoscience educator is to help as many students as possible to know and understand and respect our planet, i.e., to help them really care about it and act on their caring. In lecture, I used to think I wasn't a good scientist if I admitted my passion. No more. In the last few years I have adopted a style of expressing my delight along with sharing why I'm delighted - the intricate order and sense (and, sometimes, irony) of how things work - wonderful! |
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work in geophysics and geology, driven by a passion for maps
and landforms, exploring many aspects of the theory of plate
tectonics. At sea, I work with various groups on ships and
in the submersible Alvin, characterizing the details of sea
floor spreading centers (the lines along which all the ocean
floors were created). I also contribute to the global
oceanic data set and, using it, quantitatively describe the
past motions of the world's plates. |
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