Background
Grew, Priscilla Croswell was born on October 26, 1940 in Glens Falls, New York, United States. Daughter of James Croswell and Evangeline Pearl (Beougher) Perkins.
Grew, Priscilla Croswell was born on October 26, 1940 in Glens Falls, New York, United States. Daughter of James Croswell and Evangeline Pearl (Beougher) Perkins.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1962; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1967.
Instructor department geology Boston College, 1967-1968, assistant professor, 1968-1972. Assistant research geologist University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1977, adjunct assistant professor environmental science and engineering, 1975-1976. Director California Department Conservation, 1977-1981.
Commissioner California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, 1981-1986. Director Minnesota Geological Survey, St. Paul, 1986-1993. Professor department geology University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1986-1993.
Vice chancellor for research University Nebraska, Lincoln, 1993-1999, professor department geoscience, since 1993, professor conservation/survey division Institute Agriculture, since 1993, director University Nebraska State Museum, since 2003, fellow Center for Great Plains Studies, since 2003. Coordinator Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, since 1998. Member statues and bylaws committee International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, since 2005.
Visiting assistant professor geology University California, Davis, 1973-1974. Chairman California State Mining and Geology Board, Sacramento, 1976-1977. Executive secretary, editor Lake Powell Research Project, 1971-1977.
Consultant, visiting staff Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory, 1972-1977. Committee on minority participation in earth science and mineral engineering Department Interior, 1972-1975. Chairman California Geothermal Resource Task Force, 1977, California Geothermal Resources Board, 1977-1981.
Earthquake studies advisory panel United States Geological Survey, 1979-1983, advisory committee, 1982-1986. Advisory council Gas Research Institute, 1982-1986, research coordinator council, 1987-1998, vice-chairman, 1994-1996, chairman, 1996-1998, science and technical council, 1998-2001. Board on global change research National Academy of Sciences, 1995-1999, subcommittee on earthquake research, 1985-1988, board on earth science and resources, 1986-1991, board on mineral and energy resources, 1982-1988, board on international science organizations, since 2006.
United States delegate International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 2008. Member Minnesota Minerals Coordinator Committee, 1986-1993, United States national committee for international union of geological science (IUGS), 1985-1993, United States national committee for the international union of geodesy and geophysics since 2001, chairman, since 2003. Member United States National Committee on Diversitas, 2000-2007, vice chairman, 2004-2007.
Advisory board Stanford University School Earth Sciences, since 1989, Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, 1995-1997. Committee on equal opportunities in science and technical National Science Foundation, 1985-1986, advisory committee on earth science, 1987-1991, advisory committee on science and technical centers development, 1987-1991, advisory committee on science and technical centers, 1996, advisory committee on geoscience, 1994-1997. Member State-Federal Technology Partnership Task Force, 1995-1999, Federal Council for Continental Science Drilling, 1992-1998, Great Plains Partnership Council, 1995-1999.
Trustee American Geological Institute Foundation, since 1988 (Ian Campbell medalist 1999).
Trustee 1st Plymouth Congressional Church, Lincoln, 1997—2000. Member education and outreach steering committee EarthScope, 2005—2008, chair education and outreach steering committee, 2007—2008. Board directors Abendmusik:Lincoln, 1995—1997.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (chairman electorate nominating committee section E 1980-1984, member-at-large 1987-1991, chairman-elect 1994, chairman 1995, council delegate 1997-1998), Geological Society of America (nominations committee 1974, chairman committee on geology public policy 1981-1984, audit committee 1988-1990, chair 1990, committee on committees 1986-1987, 91-92, chairman committee on committees 1995, chair Day medal committee 1990, councilor 1987-1991), Mineralogical Society of America (member Roebling medal committee 1999-2003), Geological Association Canada, Center Great Plains Studies. Member American Geophysical Union (chairman committee public affairs 1984-1989, chair Waldo Smith medal committee 2006-2008), International Unio Geology & Geophysics (member statutes & bylaws committee since 2005)Society Mayflower Descendants, Nebraska Society Mayflower Descendants (board assistant.mem. since 2009)National Parks and Conservation Association (trustee 1982-1986), National Association Regulatory Utility Commissioners (committee on gas 1982-1986, executive committee 1984-1986, committee on energy conservation 1983-1984), National Science Collections Alliance (board directors since 2006), American Association Petroleum Geologists (chair global climate change committee 2007-2010), Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (member Petroleum Professionals Task Force, 2001-2003), Cosmos Club, Rotary, Country Club of Lincoln, Sigma Xi (president University Minnesota chapter 1990-1991).
Married Edward Sturgis Grew, June 14, 1975.