Allegra Hosford Scheirer is a research geophysicist at Stanford University, where she co-teaches courses and co-advises several graduate students. She specializes in basin and petroleum system modeling, believing strongly in the integration of geological, geochemical, and geophysical data in a unified working environment. Prior to joining Stanford, Allegra was a member of the Geophysical Unit of Menlo Park and the Energy Resources Program at the U.S. Geological Survey, where she constructed three-dimensional geologic models for use in the resource assessment process. Allegra has led and participated in numerous field programs at sea and in the United States. She is the editor of U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1713 and a past Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research. Allegra's degrees are from the MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography (Ph.D.) and Brown University (B.S.). In 2014, Allegra was invited to join the Steering Committee of the Research Coordination Network for the Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative of Earth Cube.