Professor Emeritus. Plate Boundary Behavior, Structure and Evolution of Ocean Spreading Centers

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!

PHONE: 805.893.4483

EMAIL: atwater@geol.ucsb.edu

PERSONAL WEBSITE: http://www.geol.ucsb.edu/faculty/atwater/

WEBSITE: emvc.geol.ucsb.edu/
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