Andréa Geneviève Grottoli is a Canadian and American marine scientist who is an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences at the

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. She is a Fellow of the

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, a fellow of the

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, and was named the 2021

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Rachel Carson Lecturer. She is the past-President of the International Coral Reef Society.

Early life and education

Grottoli was an undergraduate at

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. She was a graduate student at the

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, where she studied reef coral skeletons with Gerard Wellington. During her graduate studies, she went on a field trip to

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with Paul Jokiel, and became inspired to learn more about coral reefs. She moved to the

University of California, Irvine The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Irvine, California, United States. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, U ...

, where she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Ellen Druffel.

Research and career

In 2001, Grottoli started her academic career at the

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, where she was supported by a Institute for Citizens & Scholars Fellowship. She was appointed assistant professor at

in 2005. She established the Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry Laboratory. Her research combines geochemistry and coral biology. She is particularly interested in what allows corals to become resistant to climate change. She was a speaker at a 2015 TEDx

event, where she spoke about the connection between humans and corals. In 2019, Grottoli launched the Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network (CBRCN). In 2020, she was awarded a

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Fellowship. She spent the year in the

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Oceanographic Lab in

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where she studied corals of the

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, and how they are able to survive in stressful environments.

Awards and honours

* 2004

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F.W. Clarke Award * 2016

Studies Mid-Career Award * 2016 Elected Fellow of the International Coral Reef Society * 2017 Elected Fellow of the

* 2018

Voyager Award * 2018 Elected President of the International Coral Reef Society * 2020 Fulbright Fellow (Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange). * 2021 American Geophysical Union Rachel Carson Lecture * 2021

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Earth Sciences

Selected publications

* * * Grottoli AG, Warner ME, Levas SJ, Aschaffenburg M, Schoepf V, McGinley M, Baumann J, Matsui Y. (2014) "The cumulative impact of annual coral bleaching turns some coral species winners into losers." ''Global Change Biology'' 20(12):3823-3833, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12658 * Grottoli AG, Dixon S, Hulver AM, Bardin C, Lewis CJ, Suchocki CR, Consortium R3D, Toonen RJ. (2025) Underwater Zooplankton Enhancement Light Array (UZELA): a technology solution to enhance zooplankton abundance and coral feeding in bleached and non-bleached corals. ''Limnology and Oceanography Methods'' 23(3): 201-211 doi: 10.1002/lom3.10669, https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10669

Personal life

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grottoli, Andrea Living people Ohio State University faculty Canadian women biologists McGill University alumni University of Houston alumni Year of birth missing (living people) American Geophysical Union awards 21st-century Canadian biologists 21st-century Canadian women scientists