Skip over navigation
Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection
by Margarete Jadamec

As a part of the AGU Centennial, and reflecting on the past 100 years of Earth Science, I am conducting a series of video interviews with scientists that played a role in the development Plate Tectonic Theory to capture this pivotal time in the history of Earth Science. These interviews will be conducted and shared over the course of the year, and thus the list below will grow as we continue into 2019. A subset of the interviews are included for streaming below. A PDF of my talk from the AGU Centennial Meeting is included at the bottom of this page.

1) Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection: Xavier Le Pichon, by Margarete Jadamec

Movie 1: Interview with Xavier Le Pichon


2) Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection: Donald L. Turcotte, by Margarete Jadamec

Movie 2: Interview with Donald L. Turcotte


3) Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection: Donald W. Forsyth, by Margarete Jadamec

Movie 3: Interview with Donald W. Forsyth


4) Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection: Gordon West in Honor of John Tuzo Wilson, by Margarete Jadamec

Movie 4: Interview with Gordon West in Honor of John Tuzo Wilson


5) Plate Tectonics Paradigm Shift Interview Collection: Louise H. Kellogg and Donald L. Turcotte, by Margarete Jadamec

Movie 5: Interview with Louise H. Kellogg and Donald L. Turcotte

6) Plate Tectonics Interview Collection talk from the 2019 AGU Centennial Fall Meeting:
  • Margarete Jadamec AGU Talk (2019) PDF


    • When using or referencing the Talk-Interview materials please use the following citation:

    Jadamec, Margarete A., U12F: Plate tectonics paradigm shift interview collection: Reflections on a data-driven paradigm. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. San Francisco, CA, 2019.

    In addition, Margarete Jadamec would like to acknowledge the following:
    American Geophysical Union Centennial Grant
    University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Tectonophysics Centennial & Communications Committee
    Academic Technology Services, Univ. California, Davis
    Sidney E. Frank Digital Studio, Brown University
    Center for Teaching Innovation, Cornell University
    Oliver Kreylos and Benjamin Chang
    NSF CAREER Award EAR-1945513 (updates in 2024)