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C-DEBI External Advisory Board
Sun Chair Professor & Graduate Advisor, Boone Pickens
School of Geology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
Oklahoma
Estella A. Atekwana received a B.S. in Geology (magna cum
laude) and MS from Howard University, Washington DC and a
PhD in geophysics from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova
Scotia, Canada. She is currently the Clyde Wheeler Sun Chair
Professor at the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma
State University. She was previously a Professor at the University
of Missouri-Rolla now Missouri University of Science and Technology,
and spent ten years at Western Michigan University as a faculty
member in the department of Geosciences. She has served as
a panelist for several federal funding agencies including
NSF, DOE, NIH and on the National Academy of Sciences –
National Research Council Committee to Assess the Performance
of Engineered Barriers. Her research on geophysical studies
of geomicrobiology processes has helped to pioneer the new
sub-discipline of biogeophysics. Her biogeophysical research
has included studies on biofilm growth and development, microbial
attachment and transport in porous media, electrical and seismic
imaging of microbial processes, and biogeophysical signatures
of hydrocarbon contaminated sites. She currently has an ongoing
project to investigate the biogeophysical signatures associated
with microbial transformation of the BP Deep Horizon oil spill.
Atekwana also has research interest in tectonophysics with
particular attention to incipient continental rifting along
the East African Rift System and extensional terranes in southwest
Turkey. She has served on the executive committee of the American
Geophysical Union (Budget & Finance Committee and Meetings
Committee), Board of Directors for the Environmental and Engineering
Geophysical Society; Vice President Committees for Environmental
and Engineering Geophysical Society, Committee of Special
Merits (Society of Exploration Geophysicists Foundation).
She is an honorary member Phi Beta Delta, the Honor Society
for International Scholars and International Golden Key Honor
Society. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union,
Geological Society of America, Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists,
Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society, and Geochemical
Society.
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