Lawrence University Scholar to Receive an Award from the Association of Women Geoscientists

Marcia Bjornerud, the Walter Schober Professor in Environmental Studies at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, will receive the 2011 Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Women Geoscientists at the national meeting of the Geological Society of America in Minneapolis on October 10.

Professor Bjornerud is the author of The Blue Planet and Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth.

Dr. Bjornerud is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.