into education. The money is meant to provide teaching scholars the opportunity to expand their work beyond their home institutions. Leopold von Buch Medal, German Geosciences Society 2005 Gold Medal, Society of Woman Geographers 2019 Penrose Medal of the Geological Society of America. 2022 Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London. Selected works Atwater, Tanya, and P. Molnar, 1973, Relative motion of the Pacific and North American plates deduced from seafloor spreading in the Atlantic, Indian and South Pacific Oceans. R. L. Kovach and A. Nur, eds., Proc. of the Conf. on Tectonic Problems of the San Andreas Fault, Geological Sciences, v. XIII, Stanford Univ., p. 136-148. Reprinted in U.C.S.D., Scripps Inst. Oceanography., Contributions, Vol. 44, Part 2, p. 1362–1374, 1974. Atwater, T., 1991, Tectonics of the Northeast Pacific, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Series I, v. I, pp. 295–318. Atwater, T., 1998, Plate Tectonic History of Southern California with emphasis on the Western Transverse Ranges and Santa Rosa Island, in Weigand, P. W., ed., Contributions to the geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Pacific Section, MP 45, p. 1-8. See also Triple junction Project FAMOUS References Further reading External links Faculty homepage Educational Multimedia Visualization Center Women at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 1940-1965 Atwater profile. NY Times, October 12, 1999 1942 births Living people American geophysicists Marine geologists American women geologists Scientists from California Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumni UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni University of California, San Diego alumni University of California, Santa Barbara faculty 20th-century American geologists 21st-century American geologists 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women scientists Women geophysicists Members of the Society of Woman Geographers American women academics Marine geophysicists