UT Austin

Impact of Sea level change and colonization on Caribbean lizards; how extinction, diversification, and colonization are shaped by environmental perturbations; integration of macroevolutionary theory with paleobiology, ecology, and conservation biology by combining field, laboratory, and quantitative methods.

University of Arizona

Hydrogeochemist who works at the interface of hydrology, geochemistry, and microbiology to understand micro (pore) to macro (continental scale) processes throughout the earth’s crust. Regional hydrogeologic phenomena and geofluids. Reactive transport.

University of California Irvine

Member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottowa and Chippewa Indians and is actively researching with her native community.

Yale University

Georgia Tech

USGS

Developing integrated models of hydrodynamics and coastal morphology to predict short- and long-term coastal evolution and applying these models to assess coastal vulnerability to drivers such as storms and sea level rise to inform management decision-making

UC Berkeley

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Northern Arizona University

USGS

Stanford University

University of Illinois

Lamont Doherty/Columbia Univ.

Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH)

ESRI

Chief Scientist of Esri; Seafloor mapping and tectonics, ocean conservation, environmental informatics, and ethics in information technology.

University of California Museum of Paleontology

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Geologist and Director of Education and Outreach at the University of California Museum of Paleontology; Fellow of California Academy of Sciences; mentoring and promoting opportunities for geoscience majors; public outreach has been a major part of her career; Chair of the American Geophysical Union Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee and PI of the SF-ROCKS (Reaching Out to Communities and Kids with Science in San Francisco) to bring geoscience education to high school students and teachers in San Francisco; Co-PI on the NSF FIELD program (Fieldwork Inspiring Expanded Leadership and Diversity) to create more accessible, culturally sensitive, and inclusive field experiences, particularly for students underrepresented in the geosciences.

ETH Zurich

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Climate scientist and lead author on recent reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Interests in climate extremes, land-​climate processes, and climate changes; uses modeling (climate modeling, land surface modeling), data analysis (based on observations, reanalysis data, model simulations, satellite data), new approaches for the derivation of validation datasets, and own field experiments. AGU fellow since 2014 and recipient of grants from European Research Council (Consolidator grant, 2014-2019, and Proof-of-concept grant, 2021-2022).

Tulane University

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Geomorphologist; key developer of a recent model called LandLab which handles temporal scales from including individual rainfall and flood events, up to long-time landscape evolution in which climate, lithology, and tectonics can be incorporated. She also works on questions of tectonic geomorphology, including controls on the evolution of the Andes and Puerto Rico.

UT Austin

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Broad spectrum of geochemistry, including stable isotope geochemistry, volatile cycling, metamorphism and volatile transport in subduction zones, serpentinization, and fluid-rock interactions and metasomatism in the high-T environment.

Director, Bureau of Economic Geology

Switch Energy Alliance (SEA)

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Works to bring industry, government, academia, and non-governmental organizations together to address major societal challenges in energy, the environment, and the economy.

Recommended: watch Switch On, which explores energy across the developing world.

BP

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Structural geologist for BP, providing subsurface characterization of storage complexes for CO2 sequestration projects worldwide.; deputy leader of the Structural Geology Community of Practice responsible for delivering training, sharing learnings and building the structural capabilities of the geoscience population.; integration of diverse datasets and the effective communication of risks and uncertainties that impact business decisions.

UC Merced

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Interests in soil science and global change science; understanding the effect of changing environmental conditions on vital soil processes, most importantly the cycling and fate of essential elements in the critical zone

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

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Chemical potamology; the global role of chemical weathering in the Earth’s chemical engine; focus on the « drainage  basin » approach both at large scale and small scale; geochemistry of sediments transported by rivers and produced by chemical weathering in soils.

Duke University

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Micro-meteorology and near-surface hydrology with emphasis on heat, momentum, carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone, particulate matter, water transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere system and implications to hydrological, ecological, atmospheric and climate change-related problems; new modeling tools to diagnose forest vulnerability to drought in order to better predict the future of the water and carbon cycles

Colorado School of Mines

Research and teaching in mining engineering on mine closure and reclamation, quantitative sustainability assessment for mining projects, risk and safety analysis for coal mines, mine environmental monitoring using remote sensing, reliability-based design and analysis of rock slopes, uncertainty modeling in rock engineering, and interdisciplinary topics including geographic information systems.

West Virginia University

Nitrogen processing in Arctic deltas and role of channel network orientation on flux to the coast; how deltas control the flux of terrestrially derived nitrate to the Arctic Ocean