Ph.D., University of Paris 6, 1993
Heather Sloan is the Exhibition Coordinator for the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth and a Research Scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She started her work with the American Museum of Natural History in 1996.
She is a marine geophysicist who studies the seafloor and how it is created. Her research interests focus primarily on the process of seafloor accretion, particularly how new seafloor forms, at the Mid-Ocean Ridge. Dr. Sloan has traveled the globe in pursuit of data and rocks. A typical research project involves spending several weeks at sea collecting sonar data which are used to create maps of the seafloor. Back in the laboratory she uses various techniques, which usually means a lot of time on the computer, to interpret the hills, cliffs and other formations found on the flanks of the ridge. Dr. Sloan previously spent three years as the coordinator of InterRidge, an international initiative to promote the study of the Mid-Ocean Ridge.
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Heather Sloan is enjoying the view during the Siccar Point, Scotland, Hutton unconformity Expedition.
photo credit: Craig Chesek, © American Museum of Natural History
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