Marcia Bjornerud is a geologist and science writer who lives in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has a successful and established reputation for illuminating earth history to the public. Marcia holds the Schober Endowed Chair in Environmental Science and Geoscience at Lawrence University. She teaches courses ranging from “hard rock” and planetary geology to environmental modeling and the history of science. 

Marcia is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Norway (2000–2001) and New Zealand (2009). She was named Outstanding Educator in 2011 by the Association of Women Geoscientists. She is the author of three well-received books, Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth (2005),Timefulness (2018) and Geopedia (2022), and a contributing writer to the New Yorker’s science and technology blog, “Elements”. 

When not studying Wisconsin’s rocks, Marcia celebrates other aspects of Wisconsin’s natural heritage as an avid cross-country skier, cyclist and berry picker.

 

Tours from Marcia Bjornerud: 

Wisconsin Rocks and Art: Glaciers, Baraboo, Frank Lloyd Wright and the American Players Theatre