Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar, CC FRSC (born February 19, 1963[1]) is a Canadian geologist and academic known for her research into billion-year-old water.[2]

Born in the United States, the daughter of John and Joan Sherwood,[1] she joined the University of Toronto in 1992 after receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geological Sciences from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from University of Waterloo, and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto.[3] In 2007, she was made a Canada Research Chair in Isotope Geochemistry of the Earth and the Environment. It was renewed in 2014.[4]

Honours

In 2004, she was made a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada. In 2010, she was made a Senior Fellow of Massey College. In 2012, she was awarded the ENI award. In 2015, she was made a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. In 2016, she was awarded the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's John C. Polanyi Award.[5] In 2016, she was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for her revolutionary contributions to geochemistry, notably in the development of innovative mechanisms for groundwater remediation, and for her discovery of ancient fluids that hold implications for life on other planets".[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Canadian Who's Who 2006. p. 1201.
  2. ↑ "Polanyi Prize awarded to Barbara Sherwood Lollar". University of Toronto.
  3. ↑ "BARBARA SHERWOOD LOLLAR – SHORT BIOGRAPHY".
  4. ↑ "Canada Research Chairs - Barbara Sherwood Lollar".
  5. ↑ "Sherwood Lollar CV April 2016" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Governor General Announces 113 New Appointments to the Order of Canada".


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