Andrea Grottoli
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Andréa Geneviève Grottoli | |
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| Alma mater | McGill University University of Houston University of California, Irvine |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Ohio State University |
| Thesis | Interpretation of stable carbon isotopes in reef coral skeletons and applications for paleoclimate reconstruction (1998) |
Andréa Geneviève Grottoli is a Canadian and American marine scientist who is an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at the Ohio State University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the International Coral Reef Society, and was named the 2021 American Geophysical Union Rachel Carson Lecturer. She is the past-President of the International Coral Reef Society.
Grottoli was an undergraduate at McGill University.[1] She was a graduate student at the University of Houston, where she studied reef coral skeletons with Gerard Wellington.[2] During her graduate studies, she went on a field trip to Hawaii with Paul Jokiel, and became inspired to learn more about coral reefs.[3] She moved to the University of California, Irvine, where she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Ellen Druffel.[citation needed]
Research and career
In 2001, Grottoli started her academic career at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was supported by a Institute for Citizens & Scholars Fellowship. She was appointed assistant professor at Ohio State University in 2005. She established the Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory.[4] Her research combines geochemistry and coral biology.[5] She is particularly interested in what allows corals to become resistant to climate change. She was a speaker at a 2015 TEDx Ohio State University event, where she spoke about the connection between humans and corals.[6]
In 2019, Grottoli launched the Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network (CBRCN).[7] In 2020, she was awarded a Fulbright Program Fellowship.[8] She spent the year in the Sorbonne University Oceanographic Lab in Villefranche-sur-Mer[8] where she studied corals of the Mediterranean, and how they are able to survive in stressful environments.[8]
In a 2023 interview, Grotolli shared that she holds a patent for a device which works underwater to support the feeding of corals by attracting zooplankton toward a light near the coral. Her research has expanded into understanding corals' non-photosynthetic nutrition as a source of climate resilience. [9]
Awards and honours
- 2004 Geochemical Society F.W. Clarke Award[10]
- 2016 International Coral Reef Society Studies Mid-Career Award[11]
- 2016 Elected Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society[11]
- 2017 Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[12]
- 2018 American Geophysical Union Voyager Award[13][5]
- 2018 Elected President of the International Coral Reef Society[14]
- 2020 Fulbright Fellow (Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange).
- 2021 American Geophysical Union Rachel Carson Lecture[15]
- 2021 Ohio State University Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences[16]
- 2024 Marquis Who's Who Award[17]
