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Joanna Victoria Morgan is a retired British seismologist and geophysicist known for her analyses of the Chicxulub crater the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event in which many dinosaur species became extinct, all believed to have been caused by a large meteor impact.[1][2][3] Her research on Chicxulub was highlighted by a 2017 BBC documentary, The Day The Dinosaurs Died.[4] She is an emeritus professor of geophysics in the Department of Earth Science & Engineering of Imperial College London.[5]

Education and career

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Morgan read geophysics at the University of Southampton, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1980. After field work as a geophysicist and engineer in Australia and Italy, she returned to England for graduate study in marine geophysics at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD in 1988,[5] with the dissertation Seismic studies over continental margins.[6]

She became a senior lecturer at Imperial College in 2000, a reader in 2004, and a professor in 2011.[5]

Recognition

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Morgan was the 2020 recipient of the Barringer Medal, an annual award of the Meteoritical Society given for outstanding research on impact cratering. The award recognized her 2016 work on the Chicxulub crater performed through the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, which was also a runner-up in the 2019 Breakthrough of the Year competition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She became the first UK recipient and the second woman recipient of the medal.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Introducing 2020 Barringer Medal Recipient: Joanna Morgan, The Barringer Crater Company, retrieved 2023-10-03
  • ^ St. Fleur, Nicholas (17 November 2016), "Drilling Into the Chicxulub Crater, Ground Zero of the Dinosaur Extinction", The New York Times, retrieved 2023-10-03
  • ^ Amos, Jonathan (31 October 2017), "Asteroid impact plunged dinosaurs into catastrophic 'winter'", BBC News, retrieved 2023-10-03
  • ^ Diebel, Matthew (17 May 2017), "If giant dinosaur-destroying asteroid had hit elsewhere, they could still be roaming the Earth", USA Today, retrieved 2023-10-03
  • ^ a b c "Professor Joanna Morgan", People, Imperial College London, retrieved 2023-10-03
  • ^ Morgan, Joanna Victoria, "Seismic studies over continental margins", EThOS: e-theses online service, retrieved 2023-10-03; full text unavailable
  • ^ Murphy, Victoria (27 August 2020), "Prof Joanna Morgan wins Barringer Medal for outstanding work in impact cratering", News, Imperial College London, retrieved 2023-10-03
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