Shirley J. Dreiss
Shirley J. Dreiss | |
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Born | Shirley Jean Dreiss |
Died | December 14, 1993 California, US | (aged 43โ44)
Nationality | American |
Awards | Birdsall Distinguished Lectureship |
Scientific career | |
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Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz |
Shirley Jean Dreiss (1949โ1993) was an American scientist working in the fields of hydrology and hydrogeology. After gaining her PhD from Stanford University, she joined the faculty of the
Life
Shirley Dreiss was born in 1949. She died on December 14, 1993, at the age of 44, in a car accident.[1] Her death was reported by the Santa Cruz Sentinel.[2]
Education
Dreiss earned her Bachelor of Science degree with honors, in geology, from the
Career and research
Dreiss joined the faculty of the
Continuing the descriptions of karst water flow that she developed for her PhD,[4] Dreiss expanded her work to regional-scale transport through karst[5][6]
Dreiss was a member of a National Academy of Sciences committee to study the Mono Lake ecosystem. At the time of her death, Dreiss was working on Mono Lake groundwater hydrology, and several papers were published after her death describing this work.[7][8][9]
Dreiss undertook pioneering work on fluid flow in subduction zones, and seafloor sediments. She served on two panels for the international Ocean Drilling Program.
Dreiss was a member of the Coordinating Board of the California Water Resources Center, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee to Review the
Awards and recognition
In 1991, Dreiss was awarded the prestigious Birdsall Distinguished Lectureship for the Hydrogeology Division of the Geological Society of America. Her lectures were titled "The Hydrogeology of an Active Subduction Zone" and "Regional Scale Transport in a Karst Aquifer."[11] After her death, and through contributions by friends and colleagues, the lectureship was renamed as the Birdsall-Dreiss Lectureship.[12]
A special section of the journal Water Resources Research was created in her honor[13]
Dreiss is profiled by the American Geophysical Union Virtual Hydrologists Project that aims to recognize the legacy of eminent hydrologists[14]
References
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- ^ Sentinel staff report (16 December 1993). "Highway 17 accident victim was noted UCSC professor". Vol. 136, no. 345. Santa Cruz Sentinel. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
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- ^ "Past Lectures โ Hydrogeology Division". community.geosociety.org.
- ^ https://community.geosociety.org/hydrodivision/aboutus/birdsall-lectures/ GSA Hydrogeology Division
- . Retrieved 30 January 2019.
- ^ "VIRTUAL HYDROLOGISTS PROJECT: SHIRLEY J. DREISS".