Cynthia Ebinger

Ebinger is a geophysicist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Tulane University.  She has more than 40 years’ experience collecting and utilizing geophysical data and models to probe Earth’s subsurface for applications to plate tectonics and planetary evolution, earthquake and volcanic hazards, and mineral and energy resource assessment.  She has worked on projects in Africa, S. America, Australia, New Zealand, Europe and N. America. Ebinger serves as a science advisor to Department of State, and she is a member of the National Academies of Science, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union, AAAS, and the Geological Society of America.