#shareEGU20: PC1 Centennial perspectives: A celebration of Marie Tharp’s legacy
Channel: European Geosciences Union
Date: 2020-05-07

Marie Tharp’s pioneering contributions to seafloor mapping helped reveal Earth’s submarine landscape, from the mid-ocean ridge system to trenches and transform faults, in unprecedented detail. Her contributions with Bruce Heezen led to an understanding of seafloor spreading and played a key role in the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics. This press conference will honour Tharp’s achievements and examine how her life’s work has revolutionised our understanding of Earth’s oceans.


Participants:
- Vicki Ferrini Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, United States 

- Mathilde Cannat Marine geoscientist, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, France 

- Paul Wessel Professor, SOEST, University of Hawai'i at Manoa 

- Florian Schmid  Postdoctoral researcher, GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany


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