Rosemary Knight was finishing her PhD in geophysics in 1985 when she told her adviser, a leading light in the field, that she wanted to be a hydrogeophysicist.
The Stanford 카지노게임사이트 veteran stared at the young Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s grad.
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Dr. Knight went on to establish a new field in science, using geophysics methods to study water quantity and quality underground. She is now the first woman and second Canadian to win the highest honour of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Maurice Ewing Medal.
The common way to study groundwater is through drilling wells, but one well only gives information about a small area. Dr. Knight has developed ways to scan broad areas without drilling. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s like medicine, she explains: Why cut open the patient when you can scan from the outside?
She scans underground from a distance 카지노 게임 컬렉션 from the surface, a helicopter, even satellites.
One example: satellites detect the minute rise and fall of the Earth카지노 게임 컬렉션s surface 카지노 게임 컬렉션 just millimetres of change 카지노 게임 컬렉션 in a farming area of California카지노 게임 컬렉션s Central Valley. The surface drops as farmers irrigate with groundwater and rises when water is recharged during the winter. Another: rows of sensors on California beaches measure electricity under-ground. This reveals where extracting groundwater has brought in salty ocean water, because salt conducts electricity better than freshwater.
Born in Wales, raised in Pittsburgh and Southern Ontario, Dr. Knight came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s already interested in geophysics. (She recently found her old Grade 13 guidance workbook, which asked what her parents wanted her to do after high school. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Whatever I want to do,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she wrote.)
While at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s she met prominent geophysicist Dr. Ed Farrar, who passed away in 2020. She was one of the very first two women to take Dr. Farrar카지노 게임 컬렉션s class, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and he made sure to tell us he wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t going to change the way he taught or talked.카지노 게임 컬렉션 But by the end of the semester he had offered her a summer job doing potassium-argon dating (reading the history of rocks by the amount of these elements in them).
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At Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, she learned to use math and physics to understand Earth processes, but groundwater wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t yet part of her life.
Dr. Knight has developed ways to scan broad areas without drilling. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s like medicine,
she explains: Why cut open the patient when you can scan from the outside?
One summer she had a job with Amoco in Calgary, learning to read data from instruments down a well. In a larger sense, she started to become interested in reading signals to interpret the geology of the subsurface, 카지노 게임 컬렉션and in particular, what is the fluid content?
카지노 게임 컬렉션Realizing the huge potential for taking these geophysical measurements that카지노 게임 컬렉션 were commonly made for exploring for oil and gas,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she applied them to groundwater.
After getting her PhD at Stanford, she worked at the 카지노게임사이트 of British Columbia until 2000, when a job offer from Stanford brought her back there. She카지노 게임 컬렉션s still at Stanford, though she returns often to the Gulf Islands of B.C.
Setting out in an unexplored field has disadvantages, she says. There are no mentors, no guideposts.
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As well, 카지노 게임 컬렉션you do have to worry about being accepted as a field.카지노 게임 컬렉션 Granting agencies still don카지노 게임 컬렉션t know what to do with her.
카지노 게임 컬렉션It was the environment that I found in geological sciences at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s that piqued my interest in research,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I remember very clearly one day working in Ed [Farrar]카지노 게임 컬렉션s lab, I asked a question, we sat down, and it was four hours later that we got up. The whole experience of one-on-one, faculty-student interaction, mentoring, learning, was just fantastic.카지노 게임 컬렉션
