Bronwen Konecky
Bronwen Konecky | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bronwen Louise Konecky |
| Alma mater | Ph.D Brown University (2013)
S.c.M. Brown University (2010) B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University (2005) |
| Awards | Nanne Weber Early Career Award (2019)
NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship NSF Graduate Research Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoclimatology, Climatology, Hydrogeology |
| Institutions | Washington University University of Colorado Boulder |
| Thesis | Decadal to Orbital Scale Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Region: Precipitation Isotopic Perspectives from East Africa and Indonesia |
| Website | https://blkonecky.wordpress.com/ |
Bronwen Konecky is a paleoclimatologist[1] and climatologist[2] whose particular area of focus lies in the past and present effect of climate change in the tropics.[3] She is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.[4]
Education and academic career
In her senior year of high-school, Konecky took an A.P. Environmental Science class which sparked her curiosity into the sciences.[3] Konecky would then go on to receive a B.A. in Environmental Sciences though Barnard College of Columbia University in 2005. In 2010, she graduated with a Sc.M. in Geological Studies from Brown University before receiving a Ph.D. in Geological Studies from the same institution in 2013. At Brown University, Konecky was a student of James M. Russell. [5] Konecky's dissertation “Decadal to Orbital Scale Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Region: Precipitation Isotopic Perspectives from East Africa and Indonesia” focuses on the effects changes in climate have had on rainfall in the Indian Ocean Region through analysis of stable isotopes in lake sediments.[6]
Career and research
After graduating from Barnard College in 2005, Konecky began working with the African Millennium Villages Project as the Environmental Research Coordinator.[7] The project's goal was to assist communities in rural Africa get out of extreme poverty and she stayed with the project until 2008.[8] In 2013, she worked in the Cobb lab as a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.[9] Between 2014 and 2016, Konecky was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow[10] working closely with Oregon State University and University of Colorado Boulder before becoming a research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.[11] She held this position for a year before becoming an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in 2018, where Konecky works to this day.[4]
Konecky's primary fields of research are Paleoclimateology,[1] Climatology[2] and Hydrogeology.[12] She is known for her work studying ancient and modern rainfall in the tropics, specifically around the Indian Ocean and in Africa.
Awards
- AGU Nanne Weber Early Career Award (2019)[13]
- Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship (2019)[14]
Public engagement
In her spare time, Konecky also is a singer-songwriter.[15]
References
- ^ a b "2019 AGU Section Awardees and Named Lecturers". Eos. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ a b Society, National Geographic. "Learn more about Bronwen L. Konecky". www.nationalgeographic.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ a b "Bronwen Konecky – Progress". Archived from the original on 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ a b "Details inside raindrops hint at future water sources". Futurity. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Alumni of the Climate & Environment Group at Brown | Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences". www.brown.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Konecky, Bronwen L. (2014). Decadal to Orbital Scale Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Region: Precipitation Isotopic Perspectives from East Africa and Indonesia (Thesis). Brown University. doi:10.7301/Z0DJ5D05.
- ^ Zamba, Colleen; Wangila, Justine; Wang, Karen; Teklehaimanot, Awash; Siriri, David; Said, Amir; Sachs, Sonia Ehrlich; Place, Frank; Okoth, Herine (2007-10-23). "The African Millennium Villages". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (43): 16775–16780. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700423104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 2040451. PMID 17942701.
- ^ "Millennium Villages – The Earth Institute – Columbia University". www.earth.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Cobb Lab Alumni". shadow.eas.gatech.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-09-05. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1433408 - AGS-PRF: Indo-Pacific Hydrology in a Warming World: Modeled and Observed Responses to Climate Forcings from the Little Ice Age to Present". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ "Bronwyn Konecky". CIRES. 2016-04-15. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Konecky, B. L.; Noone, D. C.; Cobb, K. M. (2019). "The Influence of Competing Hydroclimate Processes on Stable Isotope Ratios in Tropical Rainfall". Geophysical Research Letters. 46 (3): 1622–1633. Bibcode:2019GeoRL..46.1622K. doi:10.1029/2018GL080188. ISSN 1944-8007.
- ^ "AGU - American Geophysical Union". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
- ^ "Bronwen Konecky". The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
- ^ Dacey, James (27 January 2016). "Rocking the status quo in science". Physics World. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
