Alicia Wilson, Ph.D., is a professor of hydrogeology in, and director of, the School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in coastal hydrogeology, with a particular focus on coastal ecohydrology and submarine groundwater exchange. Wilson is a recipient of the University of South Carolina’s Mungo Undergraduate Teaching Award. A fellow of the Geological Society of America, she has served as the chair of the GSA Hydrogeology Division. Wilson holds a Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. She held a National Research Council Postdoctoral Research fellowship at the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia, and held a postdoc at the University of California, Santa Barbara.