O Instituto Terra e o Observatório Lamont-Doherty Earth na Universidade de Columbia convida pesquisadoras a se inscrever para a bolsa de pesquisa Tharp Marie Curie para Mulheres. Este prémio tem como objetivo proporcionar uma oportunidade para mulheres cientistas de conduzir pesquisas na Universidade de Columbia. Às bolsistas serão concedidas bolsas de até 30.000 dólares por um período de 3 meses, e a oportunidade de trabalhar com professores, pesquisadores e estudantes de graduação durante a sua bolsa. Cada bolsista deverá fazer uma apresentação científica durante a sua residência. Prazo de inscrição é 15 de março de 2010.

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Applications Now Being Accepted for Marie Tharp Visiting Fellowship

The Earth Institute and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University invites applications for the Marie Tharp Fellowship for Women. This award aims to provide an opportunity for women scientists to conduct research at Columbia University. Fellows will be awarded up to $30,000 for a period of 3 months, and will have an opportunity to work with faculty, research staff, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students during their fellowship. Each Fellow is expected to make a scientific presentation during her residence. Deadline to apply is March 15, 2010.

Background

The fellowship is named after Marie Tharp, who was the first person to map details of the ocean floor on a global scale. She published the pivotal interpretation of mid-ocean ridges that was crucial to the eventual acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift. Tharp based her work on data from sonar readings obtained by Maurice Ewing and his team. Piecing together data from the late 1940s and early 1950s, she and colleague Bruce Heezen discovered a 40,000-mile underwater ridge girdling the globe and established the foundation for the conclusion that the sea floor spreads from central ridges and that the continents are in motion with respect to one another—a revolutionary geological theory at the time. Years later, satellite images proved Tharp’s maps to be accurate. Tharp came to Columbia in 1948. She then moved to the Lamont Geological Observatory (now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), where she began work on mapping the ocean floor. Her map of the ocean floor is still the foundation for research and education in the ocean sciences.

Learn more about the Marie Tharp Visiting Fellowship by clicking here: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/Research/Marie_Tharp_Information_Packet.pdf