Patience Anne Cowie was a Professor of Earth System Dynamics at the University of Bergen.
19 Facts About Patience Cowie
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Patience Cowie's research has considered fault propagation and rift basins.
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Patience Cowie was awarded the 2016 Geological Society of London Coke medal.
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Patience Cowie studied geology at Durham University and graduated in 1985.
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Patience Cowie remained there for her doctoral degree and completed her PhD under the supervision of Christopher Scholz in 1992.
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Patience Cowie moved to the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1992, where she spent one year before joining the University of Edinburgh.
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Patience Cowie moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1993, initially supported by a Natural Environment Research Council research fellowship.
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Patience Cowie was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1994.
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Patience Cowie's research considers the surface process responses to active faulting.
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Patience Cowie uses a range of research approaches, including data collected during field visits, theoretical and mathematical models.
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In 2003 Patience Cowie was made an adjunct researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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Patience Cowie was promoted to Professor of Geodynamics at the University of Edinburgh in 2008.
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In 2011 Patience Cowie joined the University of Bergen as a Professor of Geodynamics.
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Patience Cowie has studied the way that faults propagate, the variations in space and time due to the interactions of faults, the rates at which they slip and how damage zones develop in high porosity sandstones.
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Patience Cowie has studied the evaluation of Late Jurassic rifting in the North Sea.
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Patience Cowie has investigated the origins of earthquakes, and was the first to identify that fault zones deform the same way predicted by experiments in laboratories.
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The Geological Society of London recognised the contributions that Patience Cowie has made to geology in 2016 and awarded her the Coke medal.
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Patience Cowie's research is characterised by deep clarity of thought, and represents a judicious combination of numerical modelling, seismic analysis and field observation.
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Patience Cowie has served as the editor of the Geological Society of America journal Geology.