Hendratta Ali

Hendratta Ali is a petroleum geologist, geochemist, hydrologist, author, and associate professor of exploration geology in the Department of Geosciences at Fort Hays State University.
Education, career, and research.
Ali is a native of Donga-Mantung Division, Cameroon. She received her Bachelors of Science, Masters of Science, and "Diplôme d'Étude Approfondie" from University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. She received her Ph.D. in Geology and Aqueous Geochemistry from the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University in 2010 with a dissertation entitled "Carbon Cycling and Stable Isotope Evolution in Neutral Mine Drainage". 
She worked as a pedologist and environmental geologist for a 660-mile baseline survey of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and freelanced as a technical translator. Her peer-reviewed publications focus on the dissolved inorganic carbon cycling in groundwaters. She serves as a Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation grant "IRES: U.S - Cameroon Collaboration Investigating Anthropogenic Perturbations on Carbon Cycling in an Urbanized Tropical Estuary."
Awards.
Ali has received many awards, including the 2017 Inspirational Educator Award from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the 2017 Oklahoma State University Rising Star Award. 
Leadership roles.
Ali has served in numerous leadership roles in professional geosciences societies. She was the president of the Kansas Geophysical Society and the chair of the Youth-Education Committee for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 
She is also active in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Women's Network. She has also served as supervisor for the Fort Hays State University student chapters of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and American Association of Petroleum Geologists since 2010. 