|
2025 NASA Agency Honor Award - a team award for protocol development
2025 Wollaston Medal Winner 2024 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences 2024 Visiting Lecturer Cambridge University Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe 2023 American Geophysical Union Carl Sagan Lecturer 2023 RedDot Foundation "Sheroes" Award 2022 INTERNATIONAL FELLOW OF THE U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (NAS) 2021 INTERNATIONAL FELLOW, U.S. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING (NAE) 2021 ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY MASSEY MEDAL 2020 CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS- KILLAM PRIZE FOR NATURAL SCIENCES 2020 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA WILLET G. MILLER MEDAL IN EARTH SCIENCES 2019 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 2019 NSERC GERHARD HERZBERG GOLD MEDAL 2019 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 2019 C.C. PATTERSON AWARD IN ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY 2019 FELLOW OF THE GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY AND THE EAG 2019-24 CIFAR FELLOW & CO-DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH PROGRAM "EARTH 4D-SUBSURFACE SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION" 2018 GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA LOGAN MEDAL 2016 COMPANION OF THE ORDER OF CANADA 2016 NSERC JOHN C. POLANYI AWARD 2016 ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA BANCROFT AWARD 2015 FELLOW, AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2014 HELMHOLTZ INTERNATIONAL FELLOW 2014 CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR TIER 1- ISOTOPES OF THE EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT (Renewal) 2012 ENI PRICE FOR PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT 2012 GSA GEOMICROBIOLOGY AND GEOBIOLOGY DIVISION AWARD 2007 CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR TIER 1 ISOTOPES OF THE EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT 2004-2006 CANADA COUNCIL KILLAM FELLOW NSERC E.W.R. STEACIE FELLOW NGWA DARCY DISTINGUISHED LECTURER PAST-PRESIDENT OF THE GEOCHEMICAL SOCIETY 2014-2015 |
|
Barbara Sherwood Lollar CC FRS NAS NAE FRSC FRCGS - University Professor and Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits Geology, Director, Stable Isotope Laboratory, in the Earth Sciences department, University of Toronto. She is Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program Earth 4D – Subsurface Science and Exploration. A Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2015), the Geochemical Society (2019) and European Association of Geochemistry (2019). She is currently a member of the Eni Prize Commission, the National Academy of Sciences Miller Prize Committee for Origin and Evolution of Early Life, the Vice Chair and Member U.S. National Academy of Engineering International Special Nominating Committee, the Chair Royal Society London Report on Natural Hydrogen Potential for Green Energy Transition among others. Past Chair of NSERC’s 2024 Joint Prizes Selection Committee, past member of the American Geophysical Union Honors and Recognition Committee, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Mars Sample Return Planning Sample Safety Assessment Tiger team, the United States National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board, the U.S. National Academy Decadal Survey Steering Committee for Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology, the Fellows Selection Committee for the Royal Society London UK, the International Continental Drilling Program Science Advisory Committee, among others.
Sherwood Lollar’s pioneering work establishing the principles for using isotopic tracers to identify, and most importantly quantify, microbial and chemical transformation of groundwater contaminants has had a global impact in the field of drinking water remediation. Deeper in the Earth’s crust, her work coupling investigations of the deep subsurface carbon, hydrogen, and sulfur cycles with noble gas isotopic tracers elucidates water-rock reactions producing hydrogen and methane rich environments in the terrestrial subsurface, contributing to a transformed understanding of global habitability, and the sustainability of subsurface microbial communities.
Recent awards include 2025 NASA Agency Honor Award; Geological Society of London Wollaston Medal, 2024 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences, 2023 AGU Carl Sagan Lecturer, 2023 RedDot Foundation "Sheroes" Award, 2022 Election as International Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2021 International Fellow of US National Academy of Engineering, Royal Canadian Geographic Society Massey Medal, 2020 Killam Prize for Natural Sciences, RSC Willet G. Miller Medal in Earth Sciences, 2019 NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, 2019 C.C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Geochemistry, 2018 Logan Medal, 2016 NSERC John Polanyi Award, 2016 Bancroft Award, 2014 International Helmholtz Fellowship, and 2012 Eni Award for Protection of the Environment.
Sherwood Lollar currently holds three adjunct appointments, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Université Paris Cité (2022-2028), Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto (2016-2026), and the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto (2017-2027).
Sherwood Lollar’s pioneering work establishing the principles for using isotopic tracers to identify, and most importantly quantify, microbial and chemical transformation of groundwater contaminants has had a global impact in the field of drinking water remediation. Deeper in the Earth’s crust, her work coupling investigations of the deep subsurface carbon, hydrogen, and sulfur cycles with noble gas isotopic tracers elucidates water-rock reactions producing hydrogen and methane rich environments in the terrestrial subsurface, contributing to a transformed understanding of global habitability, and the sustainability of subsurface microbial communities.
Recent awards include 2025 NASA Agency Honor Award; Geological Society of London Wollaston Medal, 2024 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences, 2023 AGU Carl Sagan Lecturer, 2023 RedDot Foundation "Sheroes" Award, 2022 Election as International Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2021 International Fellow of US National Academy of Engineering, Royal Canadian Geographic Society Massey Medal, 2020 Killam Prize for Natural Sciences, RSC Willet G. Miller Medal in Earth Sciences, 2019 NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Gold Medal, 2019 C.C. Patterson Medal for Environmental Geochemistry, 2018 Logan Medal, 2016 NSERC John Polanyi Award, 2016 Bancroft Award, 2014 International Helmholtz Fellowship, and 2012 Eni Award for Protection of the Environment.
Sherwood Lollar currently holds three adjunct appointments, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) Université Paris Cité (2022-2028), Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto (2016-2026), and the Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto (2017-2027).
