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Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar
CC FRSC FRS
Born
Barbara Sherwood

(1963-02-19) February 19, 1963 (age 61)
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater
Known forStable isotopic analysis of ancient waters
AwardsENI award
Scientific career
FieldsStable isotope geochemistry, Hydrogeology
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
ThesisOrigins and implications of methane in the crystalline environment: The Canadian and Fennoscandian shields (1990)
Websitewww.es.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/sherwood-lollar-barbara

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

Early life and education

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Sherwood Lollar was born in Kingston, Ontario,[5] the daughter of John M Sherwood and Joan Sherwood, historians and academic at Queen's University, Kingston,[1][6] 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 in 1990,[7] and a postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge.

Career

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She has frequently collaborated with Tullis Onstott and Lisa Pratt on large multi-national research projects.[8]

Honours

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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.[9] In 2016, she was invested as 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".[10] Also in 2016, she was awarded the Bancroft Award by the Royal Society of Canada.[11] She received the Logan Medal in 2018.

She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2019.[12] In 2021, she was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to understanding of the evolution of Earth's groundwater and atmosphere.[citation needed]

On 6 May 2019, Lollar received the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.[6][13]

References

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  1. ^ a b Canadian Who's Who 2006. p. 1201.
  2. ^ Bettam, Sean (16 February 2016). "Polanyi Prize awarded to Barbara Sherwood Lollar". University of Toronto.
  3. ^ "BARBARA SHERWOOD LOLLAR – SHORT BIOGRAPHY".
  4. ^ "Canada Research Chairs - Barbara Sherwood Lollar". 29 November 2012.
  5. ^ "Queen's prof called to Order". Queen's University. 5 July 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b Semeniuk, Ivan (6 May 2019). "Barbara Sherwood Lollar, diviner of ancient water, wins top Canadian science prize". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  7. ^ Sherwood Lollar, Barbara (1990). Origins and implications of methane in the crystalline environment: The Canadian and Fennoscandian shields (Ph.D. thesis). University of Waterloo. OCLC 639927509 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ Onstott, T.C.; et al. (2006). "The Origin and Age of Biogeochemical Trends in Deep Fracture Water of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa". Geomicrobiology Journal. 23 (6): 369–414. Bibcode:2006GmbJ...23..369O. doi:10.1080/01490450600875688. S2CID 129602499.
  9. ^ "Sherwood Lollar CV April 2016" (PDF).
  10. ^ "Governor General Announces 113 New Appointments to the Order of Canada". Archived from the original on 2016-07-12. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  11. ^ "Past Awards Winners". The Royal Society of Canada. Archived from the original on 2016-10-14. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  12. ^ 'Barbara Sherwood Lollar', Royal Society
  13. ^ Mortillaro, Nicole (6 May 2019). "Geologist who discovered oldest water on Earth wins top science award". CBC News.
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