Audrey H. Sawyer

Audrey Hucks Sawyer is an American hydrogeologist and Assistant Professor of Earth Science at Ohio State University. Her work has focused on quantifying the role of groundwater - surface water interactions in transporting nutrients, contaminants, and heat in rivers and coastal settings. Sawyer has won multiple awards, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award In 2007, Sawyer attended Pennsylvania State University, from which she received a Master of Science in Geoscience.

In 2011 Sawyer obtained her Doctor of Philosophy in Geological Science at University of Texas at Austin. Her thesis focused on the "Complexity in river-groundwater exchange due to permeability heterogeneity, in-stream flow obstacles, and river stage fluctuations."

Career and research Following her Doctoral degree, Sawyer worked as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Delaware from 2011 until 2012. Subsequently, Sawyer was hired as an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental sciences at University of Kentucky from 2012 until 2014. Following this, Sawyer became an Assistant Professor of Earth Science at Ohio State University from 2014 to present. and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is also an Officer at the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Incorporated. Sawyer has been the lead investigator of research done for the United States Geological Survey during 2014 and 2017.

Sawyer's work has been published by multiple journals, such as Water Resources Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research: Bio-geosciences section, and Oceans section. In addition to this, she has been published by Journal of Hydrology, GroundWater Journal, as well as the scientific journals supported by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sawyer received the Kohout Early Career Award in 2016 from the Geological Society of America's Hydrology Division. "The award will be presented to a distinguished early career scientist for outstanding achievement in contributing to the Hydrogeological profession through original research and service, and for the demonstrated potential of continued excellence throughout their career." (2018)

Awards and honors

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2018) Kohout Early Career Award given by Geological Society of America's Hydrology Division (2016) American Geophysical Union Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Refereeing in Geophysical Research Letters (2015) American Geophysical Union Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Refereeing in Water Resources Research (2014) American Geophysical Union Horton Research Grant recipient (2009)