Gillian Foulger

Gillian Foulger
Born	1952 (age 71–72)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of Durham
Awards	Price Medal (2005)
Scientific career
Thesis	Seismological studies at the Hengill geothermal area, S.W. Iceland (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Páll Einarsson R. E. Long
Website	community.dur.ac.uk/g.r.foulger/

Gillian Rose Foulger (born 1952) is a British geologist and academic. She is Professor of Geophysics at Durham University. She is one of the leading proponents of alternative models to the established deep mantle thermal plume hypothesis. This work makes an important contribution to the understanding of volcanic and earthquake areas such as the Hawaii, Iceland and Yellowstone hotspots.

For her work she was awarded the 2005 Price Medal "for investigations of outstanding merit in solid-earth geophysics, oceanography, or planetary sciences" of the Royal Astronomical Society. That same year she was also made a Fellow of the Icelandic National Academy of Sciences.

Selected publications

• Thatcher, Wayne; Foulger, G. R.; Julian, B. R.; Svarc, J.; Quilty, E.; Bawden, G. W. (12 March 1999). "Present-Day Deformation Across the Basin and Range Province, Western United States". Science. 283 (5408): 1714–1718. doi:10.1126/science.283.5408.1714.
• Foulger, G.R. (2005). Plates, Plumes, And Paradigms. Geological Society of America. p. 881. ISBN 0-8137-2388-4.
• Foulger, G.R. (2007). Plates, Plumes, and Planetary Processes. Geological Society of America. p. 998. ISBN 978-0-8137-2430-0.
• Foulger, G.R. (2010). Plates vs. Plumes: A Geological Controversy. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 364. ISBN 978-1-4051-6148-0.

External links

• Gillian Foulger home page at Durham University