# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/estella-atekwana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:12:19.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/estella-atekwana"
name: "Estella Atekwana"
slug: "estella-atekwana"
description: "Estella Atekwana is a geophysicist studying biogeophysics and tectonophysics. She is currently Dean of the College of Letters and Science, and also a Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California, Davis. She previously served as Dean of the College of Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of Delaware. She is also an adjunct professor at both the University of Waterloo and the Missouri University of Science and Technology. Before joining the University of Delaware in 2017, she was the Department Head of the Boone Pickens School of Geology at Oklahoma State University. She maintains an adjunct appointment. Atekwana has also been a faculty member at Missouri University of Science & Technology, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and Western Michigan University. Atekwana has been a part of helping write many journals and has earned many awards and honors throughout her career. She's an elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences."
tagline: "American geophysicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Estella_Atekwana.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           35.73
  momentum:             0.617283950617284
  historical:           4.403096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Estella Atekwana"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estella_Atekwana"
    title: "Estella Atekwana"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estella_Atekwana"
    title: "Estella Atekwana"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Estella_Atekwana"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump