Joann Miriam Stock
BornOctober 9, 1959[1]
Boston, MA
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
InstitutionsCalifornia Institute of Technology
ThesisKinematic constraints on the evolution of the Gulf of California Extension Province, Northeastern Baja California, Mexico (1988)
Doctoral advisorKip V. Hodges

Joann Stock is a professor at California Institute of Technology known for her research into plate tectonics, particularly on changes in plate boundaries over geological time.

Education and career

Stock earned her B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981,[2] and went on college field trip to Greece which grabbed her interest in geology.[3] She "liked learning things that nobody knew before" and was particularly interested in earthquakes on the sea floor.[3] She went on to earn an M.S. (1981)[4] and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988).[5] From 1988 until 1992 she was on the Geology and Geophysics faculty at Harvard University, and then she moved to the California Institute of Technology where she was promoted to professor in 1998.[2] From 1995 until 2000 she was also an adjunct investigator at the Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada.

Research

Map detailing locations of hotspots in the Earth's mantle.
Postulated "hot spots" as categorized by Courtillot, Davaille, Besse, and Joann Stock in a 2003 publication in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Stock is known for her research into plate tectonics, especially the uncertainties associated with determining the location of tectonic plates in the past.[6] Through her collaboration with Peter Molnar, Stock has examined the movement of plates in the Cenozoic[7] and in the period since the Late Cretaceous.[8] Stock has also defined the positions of tectonic plates in the Late Cretaceous[9][10] and the Paleogene.[11] Her work includes a reconstruction of the interactions between the Pacific plate and the North America plates,[12] and a description of the transfer of Baja California to the North American Plate.[13] Stock's work also addresses how mantle hot spots begin[14] and variability in the position of hot spots.[15][16][17]

Selected publications

Awards and honors

References

  1. ^ Rice, William B. (July 2008). Geologists: From Pythias to Stock. Capstone. ISBN 978-0-7565-3966-5.
  2. ^ a b "Stock CV" (PDF). Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  3. ^ a b Rice, William B. (July 2008). Geologists: From Pythias to Stock. Capstone. ISBN 978-0-7565-3966-5.
  4. ^ Stock, Joann Miriam (1981). Uncertainties in the relative positions of the Australia, Antarctica, Lord Howe and Pacific plates during the tertiary (Thesis). OCLC 7957949.
  5. ^ Stock, Joann Miriam (1988). Kinematic constraints on the evolution of the Gulf of California Extension Province, Northeastern Baja California, Mexico (Thesis). OCLC 20205508.
  6. ^ Molnar, Peter; Stock, Joann M. (1985). "A method for bounding uncertainties in combined plate reconstructions". Journal of Geophysical Research. 90 (B14): 12537. Bibcode:1985JGR....9012537M. doi:10.1029/JB090iB14p12537. ISSN 0148-0227.
  7. ^ McQuarrie, N.; Stock, J. M.; Verdel, C.; Wernicke, B. P. (2003). "Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions". Geophysical Research Letters. 30 (20): 2003GL017992. Bibcode:2003GeoRL..30.2036M. doi:10.1029/2003GL017992. ISSN 0094-8276. S2CID 18874650.
  8. ^ Molnar, Peter; Stock, Joann (1987). "Relative motions of hotspots in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans since late Cretaceous time". Nature. 327 (6123): 587–591. Bibcode:1987Natur.327..587M. doi:10.1038/327587a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4330873.
  9. ^ Stock, Joann; Molnar, Peter (1982-06-10). "Uncertainties in the relative positions of the Australia, Antarctica, Lord Howe, and Pacific Plates since the Late Cretaceous". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 87 (B6): 4697–4714. Bibcode:1982JGR....87.4697S. doi:10.1029/JB087iB06p04697.
  10. ^ Stock, Joann; Molnar, Peter (1988). "Uncertainties and implications of the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary position of North America relative to the Farallon, Kula, and Pacific Plates". Tectonics. 7 (6): 1339–1384. Bibcode:1988Tecto...7.1339S. doi:10.1029/TC007i006p01339. ISSN 1944-9194.
  11. ^ Stock, Joann; Molnar, Peter (1987). "Revised history of early Tertiary plate motion in the south-west Pacific". Nature. 325 (6104): 495–499. Bibcode:1987Natur.325..495S. doi:10.1038/325495a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4341762.
  12. ^ Atwater, Tanya; Stock, Joann (1998). "Pacific-North America Plate Tectonics of the Neogene Southwestern United States: An Update". International Geology Review. 40 (5): 375–402. Bibcode:1998IGRv...40..375A. doi:10.1080/00206819809465216. ISSN 0020-6814.
  13. ^ Stock, J. M.; Hodges, K. V. (1989). "Pre-Pliocene Extension around the Gulf of California and the transfer of Baja California to the Pacific Plate". Tectonics. 8 (1): 99–115. Bibcode:1989Tecto...8...99S. doi:10.1029/TC008i001p00099. ISSN 1944-9194.
  14. ^ Courtillot, Vincent; Davaille, Anne; Besse, Jean; Stock, Joann (January 2003). "Three distinct types of hotspots in the Earth's mantle". Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 205 (3–4): 295–308. Bibcode:2003E&PSL.205..295C. doi:10.1016/S0012-821X(02)01048-8. ISSN 0012-821X.
  15. ^ Stock, Joann; Molnar, Peter (1988). "Uncertainties and implications of the Late Cretaceous and Tertiary position of North America relative to the Farallon, Kula, and Pacific Plates". Tectonics. 7 (6): 1339–1384. Bibcode:1988Tecto...7.1339S. doi:10.1029/TC007i006p01339. ISSN 1944-9194.
  16. ^ Monastersky, Richard (1987). "Set Adrift by Wandering Hotspots". Science News. 132 (16): 250–252. doi:10.2307/3971911. ISSN 0036-8423. JSTOR 3971911.
  17. ^ Tarduno, John A. (2008). "HOT SPOTS Unplugged". Scientific American. 298 (1): 88–93. Bibcode:2008SciAm.298a..88T. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0108-88. ISSN 0036-8733. JSTOR 26000380. PMID 18225700.
  18. ^ Rice, William B. (July 2008). Geologists: From Pythias to Stock. Capstone. ISBN 978-0-7565-3966-5.
  19. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Joann M. Stock". Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  20. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 9058217 - Presidential Young Investigator Award". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  21. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 9296102 - Presidential Young Investigator Award". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  22. ^ "GSA Fellowship". www.geosociety.org. Retrieved 2021-08-15.
  23. ^ "Stock". Honors Program. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
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