Rate My Professor Moyra Wilson

Dr. Moyra Wilson serves as Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology in the School of Earth and Oceans within the Earth Sciences at the University of Western Australia, a position she has held since 2016. She is also affiliated with the UWA Oceans Institute. Her research specializations encompass coral reefs and climate change, sedimentology, petroleum geology, reservoirs, aquifers, geothermal systems, palaeoenvironment, and palaeoclimatology. Additional academic interests include carbonate sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentary basins, paleogeography, palaeoecology, sedimentary geochemistry, and marine geology. Prior to her current appointment, Wilson was a Senior Research and Teaching Fellow (part-time) at Curtin University from 2011 to 2016, a Specialist Consultant (part-time) in marine, environmental, and petroleum geoscience from 2012 to 2016, a Research and Teaching Fellow at Curtin University from 2007 to 2011, a Lecturer in Soft Rock Geology at Durham University, UK from 1999 to 2007, a Postdoctoral Researcher in the SE Asia Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London from 1996 to 1999, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London from 1995 to 1996. She earned her PhD from Royal Holloway College, London in 1995, researching syntectonic carbonate platform sedimentation in Indonesia.