Prof. Mosher has held the Professor and William Stamps Farish Chair since 2001, and holds a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana (1978). Her research is in Structural Petrology, Tectonics, and involves structural petrology and field-oriented structural geology. Her primary research interests are in the evolution of complexly deformed terranes, strain analysis, deformation mechanisms, and the interaction between chemical and physical processes during deformation.
Dr. Mosher currently has three active research areas: the Mesoproterozoic of Texas, the Australian-Pacific oceanic plate boundary south of New Zealand, and the southwestern U.S. Mesozoic Maria Tectonic belt.Susan Solomon, is Senior Scientist at NOAA and works on atmospheric chemistry and its links to climate. Her current research projects include: photochemistry and transport processes in the stratosphere and troposphere; remote sensing of the atmosphere by spectroscopic methods and their interpretation; interpretation of ozone depletion at mid-latitudes and in polar regions; coupling between trace gases and the Earth's climate system.