nationality fields workplaces article_title name alma_mater
american geology university of texas sharon mosher
 sharon mosher brown university university of illinois
sharon mosher

sharon mosher is an american geologist .
she did her undergraduate work at university of illinois at urbana .
after earning an m.sc .
from brown university , she returned to illinois-urbana to get her ph.d. in geology in 1978 .
since 2001 she has held the william stamps farish chair at university of texas , and , since 2009 the dean of the jackson school of geosciences at texas .
in 2013 she became the president of the american geosciences institute .
she founded `` 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 2001 she was named outstanding educator by the association for women geoscientists .
her primary research interests are in the evolution of complexly deformed terranes , strain analysis , deformation mechanisms , and the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation .
