Shari Gallop
Shari L. Gallop is a marine environmental scientist and an academic at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.[1]
Biography
[edit]Gallop grew up in the Bay of Plenty region; she was born in Whakatāne and raised in Kawerau and Manawahe. She is New Zealand Māori, of Ngāti Maru (on her father's side) and Te Rarawa (on her mother's side) iwi.[2]
She attended Edgecumbe College and the University of Waikato, where she completed a bachelor's and a master's degree in science. Her thesis was on rip currents at Tairua and Muriwai beaches.[3] She completed a PhD at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, studying rocky reefs and their impact on coastal erosion and stability. After graduation, she lectured and carried out research at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.[1]
In 2020, Gallop was awarded the L’Oréal/UNESCO For Women in Science Award for her research into restoring estuaries.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c University of Waikato (31 October 2020). "University of Waikato marine scientist awarded women's global fellowship in climate change". www.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Shari Gallop - Staff Profiles: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ Gallop, Shari (2009). Rip current dynamics on an embayed beach (Masters thesis). Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato. hdl:10289/3511.
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