MSc, University of Bucharest, Romania PhD, University of Sydney, Australia (1999)
Scientific career
Fields
Geophysicist
Institutions
Geological Survey of Romania, Bucharest, Romania (1987-1991) EarthByte group, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Australia (1995-2005) Centre for Geodynamics, Norwegian Geological Survey, Norway (2005-2011) Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, Norway (2011-)
Carmen Gaina is the Director of the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED) a Norwegian Centre of Excellence hosted at the Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo,[3] Norway.
Carmen is ageophysicist whose research includes deciphering Earth'scrustal andmantle structure and evolution. Her expertise lies in combining geological and geophysical data of the oceans and continental margins. Her research also investigates the interaction of the solid Earth, oceans and atmosphere for the geological past by modelling paleo-bathymetry, sea-level and global geochemical budgets resulting fromplate tectonics.
She led projects involving compilations of large geophysical datasets including the Circum-Arctic Mapping Project[4] part (CAMP-GM) of the new World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map release (WDMAM). Previously Carmen was the team leader of the Centre for Geodynamics,Norwegian Geological Survey in Trondheim, Norway.[2]
The Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics is dedicated to research of fundamental importance to the understanding of our planet, that embraces the dynamics of the plates, the origin of large-scale volcanism, the evolution of climates and the abrupt demise of life forms. The centre plays a leading role in the studies ofMantle dynamics using 3-D computer simulations, geological and geophysical observations.
Gaina, C., Blischke, A., Geissler, W.H., Kimbell, G.S. and O. Erlendsson, 2016, Seamounts and oceanic igneous features in the NE Atlantic: a link between plate motions and mantle dynamics, in The NE Atlantic Region: A Reappraisal of Crustal Structure, Tectonostratigraphy and Magmatic Evolution, eds. Peron-Pinvidic, G, Hopper, J. R., Stoker, M., Gaina, C., Doornebal, H., Funck, T., and U. Arting, Geol. Soc., London, Special Publications, 447.http://doi.org/10.1144/SP447.6
Shephard, G., R. Trønnes, W. Spakman, I. Panet, and C. Gaina, 2016, Evidence for a distinct slab under Greenland and links to North Atlantic and Arctic magmatism, Geophysical Research Letters, 43,doi:10.1002/2016GL068424[permanent dead link]
Gaina, C., Nikishin, A.M., and, E.I. Petrov, 2015, Ultraslow spreading, ridge relocation and compressional events in the East Arctic region – A link to the Eurekan orogeny?, Arktos,doi:10.1007/s41063-015-0006-8[permanent dead link].
Gaina, C, D. van Hinsbergen, and W, Spakman, 2015, Reconstruction of the Arabia-India plate boundary since the Jurassic from marine geophysical, geological and seismic tomographic constraints, Tectonics,doi:0.1002/2014TC003780.
Gaina, C., S. Medvedev, T. H. Torsvik, I. Koulakov, andS. C. Werner, 2013, 4D Arctic: A Glimpse into the structure and evolution of the Arctic in the light of new geophysical maps, plate tectonics and tomographic models, 2013, Surveys in Geophysics,doi:10.1007/s10712-013-9254y[permanent dead link].
Whittaker, J.; Mueller, R. Dietmar; Sdrolias, M., Leitchenchov; G., Stagg, H.; Gaina, Carmen; Goncharov, A. (5 October 2007). "Major Australian-Antarctic plate reorganization at Hawaiian-Emperor bend time".Science.318 (5847):83–86.Bibcode:2007Sci...318...83W.doi:10.1126/science.1143769.PMID17916729.S2CID129191964.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
