Biography
Atwater received her B.A. in Geophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965 and is a '72 University of California, San Diego Alumna, holding a Ph.D. (1972) in Marine Geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is director of the UCSB Educational Multimedia Visualization Center and an emerita professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the faculty at UCSB in 1980.
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