Sharon Mosher

Sharon Mosher is an American geologist. She did her undergraduate work at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. After earning an MSc from Brown University, she returned to the University of Illinois to get her PhD in Geology in 1978. Since 2001 she has held the William Stamps Farish Chair at University of Texas, and, since 2009 she has served as the dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences at Texas. In 2013 she became the president of the American Geosciences Institute.

She was a founder of ''GeoScienceWorld'', an international journal aggregation for geoscientists. Among her awards and honors, she is a fellow of the Geological Society of America, from which she received the Distinguished Service Award in 2003, after serving as its president in 2001, and an honorary fellow of the Geological Society of London. In 1990 she was named Outstanding Educator by the Association for Women Geoscientists. In 2020 she was acknowledged as the Marcus Milling Legendary Geoscientist. Provided by Wikipedia