Grottoli Receives Awards for Geochemical Research
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The Geochemical Society has presented assistant professor of earth and environmental science Andrea Grottoli with its 2004 W.F. Clarke Award for her research on coral skeletal carbon isotopes. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions to geochemistry or cosmochemistry by an early career scientist. Professor Grottoli received the award in June at the society’s annual meeting in Copenhagen. In addition, she has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship to conduct research on the effect of land-use change on the carbon cycle of coastal marine environments in Puerto Rico.
Professor Grottoli’s scholarly interests include tropical paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, coral reef ecology and conservation, coral bleaching, and physiology. Last year, the American Society for Mass Spectrometry presented her with its research award for her paper, Developing New Geochemical Tools for Paleoclimate Reconstruction: In Situ Calibration of Stable Isotopes in Western Tropical Pacific Sclerosponges. She holds a B.Sc. in biology from McGill University and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Houston. She came to Penn in 2001 after serving as a Dreyfus Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Chemistry at the University of California at Irvine.