Mathilde Cannat
Mathilde Cannat | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 63–64) |
| Alma mater | Université de Nantes |
| Awards | Murchison Medal (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris |
| Thesis | Cinématique de charriages ophiolitiques (Klamath, Semail, Groix) et convergence océanique (1983) |
Mathilde Cannat is a French geologist known for her research on the formation of oceanic crust and the tectonic and magmatic changes of mid-ocean ridges.
Education and career
[edit | edit source]Cannat earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from University of Nantes where she worked on ophiolites and tectonic processes.[1] Following her Ph.D., she was a postdoc at Durham University and then she joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1986.[2] In 1992 she obtained a position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (University of Paris 6) where she remained until she moved to a position at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in 2001.[3]
In 2014, Cannat was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union who cited her "for fundamental contributions to understanding the accretion of the oceanic lithosphere and crust".[4]
Research
[edit | edit source]Cannat's research centers on magmatism, changes in the oceanic crust, particularly at mid-ocean ridges. Her early research was on ophiolites in California and western Alps, and she used her research on ophiolites to understand processes on the seafloor.[5][6][7] In the mid-1990s, Cannat described the formation of the seafloor at slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges, a model posing that new seafloor is formed from rocks that have been tectonically uplifted from the mantle.[8][9][10] This idea differed from the processes described for fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges[11] and, in a 2018 interview, she described this as her greatest achievement.[3] Cannat's research can rely on in situ observations, and she has made seventeen deep-sea dives aboard the Nautile.[2]
Selected publications
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Awards and honors
[edit | edit source]- Silver Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research (Médaille d'Argent du CNRS) (2009)[12][2][13]
- Fellow, American Geophysical Union (2014)[4]
- Stephan Mueller Medal, European Geosciences Union (2020)[11]
- Murchison Medal, Geological Society of London (2023)[14]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Mathilde Cannat publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 2018 interview with Cannat on European Geosciences Union blog
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