Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a professor of arc welding, coding, patent holding, company establishment, asteroid exploration, and igneous rock scholars on the Siberian River. At various times of her time, she has been a farmer, a trainer for competitive sheep dogs, an author of children’s books, and a management consultant for Boeing Helicopters.She is now Professor, Arizona State UniversityShe assists in execution Learning CompanyAnd she is a NASA Principal Researcher “Psychic” mission To Metal asteroid..
Her self-proclaimed “Winding” career path I am conducting research on planet formation, magma ocean, mass extinction, and mantle melting. Her results she produced were fundamental and earned her the constellation of her prestigious award. She even has an asteroid named after her (asteroid 8252 Elkins-Tanton).
Given all that, perhaps the greatest revelation Her new autobiography, Portrait of a scientist as a young woman, The high achiever of this star was suffering from the same questions and lack of self-confidence that plagued our other people. When she entered college she went back and forth between forestry and geology, and as a freshman she said she was plagued by organic chemistry and she wasn’t studying enough or studying enough. I was. Sometimes she felt she didn’t belong, and sometimes she said so. However, Elkins-Tanton overcame these obstacles and the other obstacles were much more serious.
To cover all of that, Elkins-Tanton has put together several different threads into one book.
From Russia with lava
One thread is a fascinating description of her adventures as a geologist, especially as her. Expedition to the farthest wilderness of Siberia.. There she boarded a tundra by helicopter, sailed in a pontoon boat tied with duct tape, thawed the cargo hold of an aircraft, shared it with a stinky caribou corpse, and around a campfire in the snow. I noticed that I was sipping vodka and eating in a cloud of mosquitoes. It was so thick that an insect landed on her food on the way from her bowl to her mouth. She also talks about the unattractive aspects of these trips. Occasionally difficult team dynamics, a fruitless quest for zircon crystals, a Russian permit dispute, and a terrifying escape from the locals who added alcohol.
Over the years, these expeditions have collected £ 850 samples and published numerous papers from groups of researchers from multiple institutions and countries. These decisively linked the Siberian flood basalt to the mass extinction of the late Permian. This is an important result for both biology and geology.
She also describes her early work on building a high-pressure furnace to melt rock powder. She casually mentions how the arc welder shocked her through her orbit. These furnaces operated for six months at a time and could break with “gunshot-like bangs.” Almost a year after the construction and execution of her experiment, her sample was unmelted, so she simply resumed at higher temperatures and pressures.
Manifest
Another thread in this book corresponds to a manifesto that rejects traditional methods of teaching science and math as “like trying to train a dog with an electric collar.” Progress is a test and a test of grades. “There is a myth that people with high academic research have reached it with their own disciplinary genius or childhood motivation,” Elkins-Tanton writes.
Her approach prefers to ask questions, find answers through research, and integrate the results. This usually does not happen up to the graduate level.With these ideas she was co-founded Beagle learningEducation Platforms, and Systems to Patent Inquiry learning..