Gail M. Ashley

Gail Mowry Ashley (born January 29, 1941 in Leominster , Massachusetts ) is an American geologist ( Quaternary geology , sedimentology , archaeological geology).

Life

Gail Mowry was introduced to geology as a student by a neighbor who was a geology professor and studied geology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a bachelor's degree in 1963. She then married Stuart Ashley and interrupted her scientific career to raise her two children. In 1972 she received her Masters degree from the University of Massachusetts and in 1977 she received her PhD from the University of British Columbia with a dissertation on sediment transport in a recent tidal river. Then she went to Rutgers University , where she became a professor.

She researched glacial geomorphology and marine sedimentation in Alaska , Ireland and the Antarctic (where she was refused a research stay in 1970 on the grounds that no facilities were provided for women) and reconstructed the living conditions of early hominids in the classic site of the Olduvai Gorge . It also generally explores wetlands and springs as possible archaeological sites.

From 1996 to 2000 she was editor of the Journal of Sedimentary Research and from 1989 to 1995 Associate Editor of the Geological Society of America Bulletin . In 1998/99 she was the successor to Victor R. Baker President of the Geological Society of America .

She is married to geochemist Jeremy Delaney.

literature

• Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003
• G. Ashley: Geologists probe hominid environments, GSA Today, Vol. 10, 2002, No. 2, pp. 24-29.

Web links

• Homepage , accessed on March 29, 2018.