Flashcards: Women geophysicists

Kirsty McCabe is a Scottish weather forecaster and presenter, and the Senior Meteorologist at The Weather Channel, based at the UK office in London.

Robin Elizabeth Bell is a professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Amy Barr Mlinar (born 1972-1973) is an American planetary geophysicist known for her studies of icy body formation.

Janne Blichert-Toft is a geochemist, specializing in the use of isotopes with applications in understanding planetary mantle-crust evolution, as well as the chemical composition of matter in the universe.

Lucile M. Jones (born 1955) is a seismologist and public voice for earthquake science and earthquake safety in California.

Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago) is an atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Tanya Atwater (born August 27, 1942) is a retired American geophysicist and marine geologist who specialized in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas Fault plate boundary.

Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

Margaret G. Kivelson is an American space physicist, planetary scientist, and Distinguished Professor Emerita of Space Physics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mary Lou Zoback (née Chetlain) (born July 5, 1952) is an American geophysicist who led the World Stress Map Project of the International Lithosphere Program.

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen (born 8 September 1958, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish palaeoclimatology professor and researcher at the Centre for Ice and Climate at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Inés Lucia Cifuentes (April 26, 1954 – December 16, 2014) was an English-born American seismologist and educator.

Karen Cook McNally (1940 – December 20, 2014) was an American seismologist.

Susan Elizabeth Hough (born March 20, 1961) is a seismologist at the United States Geological Survey in Pasadena, California, and scientist in charge of the office.

Violet Rosemary Strachan Hutton (22 October 1925 – 1 April 2004), known to her peers as Rosemary, was a British geophysicist and pioneer of magnetotellurics.

Anny Cazenave (French pronunciation: [ani kaznav] ) is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry.

Claudia Joan Alexander (May 30, 1959 – July 11, 2015) was an American research scientist specializing in geophysics and planetary science.

Carmen Gaina is a geophysicist whose research goal is to study the evolution of the global oceanic regions, she is involved in compilation of large geophysical datasets (Circum-Arctic Mapping Project part (CAMP-GM) of the new World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map release (WDMAM)).