University of Yaounde I, Oklahoma State University
Awards
Randolph W. “Bill” and Cecile T. Bromery Award: From the Geological Society of America (2021), Presidential Citation, American Geophysical Union (2020), President's Award. Association for Women Geoscientists (2020), Outstanding Educator Award. Society of Exploration Geophysicists (2018), President’s Distinguished Scholar Award, Fort Hays State University (2021), Rising Star Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Oklahoma State University (2017)
Hendratta Ali is a geoscientist who does work in hydrology, aqueous geochemistry, exploration geology and equity geoscience. Her home institution is the Department of Geosciences at
Fort Hays State University. She was awarded the 2021
Geological Society of AmericaRandolph Bromery award and Fort Hays State University President’s Distinguished Scholar Award. Ali is a native of
Cameroon.
Education, career, and research
Ali received her Bachelors of Science, Masters of Science, and Diplôme d'Étude Approfondie from the
University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She earned her Ph.D. in Geology and Aqueous Geochemistry from the Boone Pickens School of Geology at
Oklahoma State University in 2010 with a dissertation entitled Carbon Cycling and Stable Isotope Evolution in Neutral Mine Drainage.[1]
She worked as an environmental geologist for pedology and hydrogeology for the
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline project and freelanced as a technical translator.[2] Her peer-reviewed publications focus on the dissolved inorganic carbon cycling in groundwaters[3][4][5][6] and improving diversity and educational outcomes in the geosciences.[7]
She serves as a Program Director at the
National Science Foundation and led a grant IRES: U.S - Cameroon Collaboration Investigating Anthropogenic Perturbations on Carbon Cycling in an Urbanized Tropical Estuary.[8][9]
Ali has served in numerous leadership roles in professional geoscience societies. She was the president of the Kansas Geophysical Society[14] and chaired the Women’s Network Committee and the Youth-Education Committee for the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists.[15] She also served as a facilitator for ADVANCEGeo Partnerships training. She also served as supervisor for the Fort Hays State University student chapters of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and
American Association of Petroleum Geologists since 2010.