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Miriam kastner in 99 seconds
Miriam Kastner (born January 22, 1935) is an American oceanographer and geochemist. She is a Distinguished Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
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- Miriam kastner in 99 seconds
- Methane Hydrates Natural Hazard or Natural Resource Perspectives on Ocean Science
- Early life and education
- Research career
- Awards and honors
- References
Methane Hydrates: Natural Hazard or Natural Resource? - Perspectives on Ocean Science
Early life and education
Kastner was born in Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia. She gained her M.Sc. in Geology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 followed by a Ph.D.from Harvard University in 1970.
Research career
In 1972, while a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, Kastner was approached by Scripps and asked to apply for an upcoming position as an Assistant Professor; she has been at Scripps ever since.
Kastner's research expertise is in marine geochemistry; early research focused on the origin of authigenic feldspars and of zeolites in oceanic sediments, the diagenetic transformations of opal-A and the control of dolomite formation. She also did important work on strontium distribution and on phosphate deposits. Her interests include fluid transport in the oceanic lithosphere, marine gas hydrates at convergent margins, chemical paleoceanography and the mineralogy and genesis of hydrothermal marine deposits.