Professor Terry Wilson was honored to selected as the lecturer for the 2021 S.T. Lee Lecture at the University of Wellington.
Terry Wilson is a Professor Emerita in the School of Earth Sciences and at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University, USA, where she has worked as a geologist since 1985. Terry was a pioneer in using GPS to measure bedrock motion in Antarctica. She has led over 25 field expeditions to Antarctica, cumulatively spending over four years ‘on the Ice’. Her research has investigated the structural architecture of mountain belts, how continents rift, and the interaction of the solid Earth and ice sheets in Antarctica. She has been influential in training the next generation of polar scientists, mentoring over 40 students in Antarctic research, introducing over 50 students and early career scientists to fieldwork in Antarctica, and organizing multiple international training schools on polar science. Terry has held several high-profile leadership positions in polar science and is currently the delegate to SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) for the International Union of Geological Sciences.
Terry is currently exploring New Zealand and Banks Peninsula, where she was lucky enough to get ‘locked down’ over a year ago!
You can view her lecture here