Allegra Hosford Scheirer is a researcher and Principal Scientist in the Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling Industrial Affiliates consortium at Stanford University, where she also teaches graduate level courses, advises graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, and pursues research projects on sedimentary basins around the globe. Allegra also teaches short courses and consults on exploration efforts in the petroleum industry. Prior to Stanford, she was a member of the Geophysical Unit of Menlo Park and the Energy Resources Program at the U.S. Geological Survey. She is the editor of USGS Professional Paper 1713 and a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research. Allegra’s degrees are from Brown University (Geology-Physics/Math) and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography (Ph.D.), during which time she spent many weeks at sea studying volcanism and tectonism at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Southwest Indian Ridge, and Pacific plate.