Honors & Awards

  • UCLA Faculty Award for Career Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

    2020

    The first time three awards have gone to the same research group in the history of UCLA

  • Climate Crisis Honoree, Washington DC

    2019
  • Fellow, Geological Society of America

    2018
  • Distinguished Lecturer, National Science Foundation

    2018
  • Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) under President Obama

    2017
  • Bromery Award, Geological Society of America

    2017
  • Chair International D’Excellence, Stable isotopes and paleoceanography, Labex Mer, European Institute of Marine Sciences

    2015-2017
  • U.S. National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fello

    2015
  • E. O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science - on the role of carbon dioxide in climate change, Center for Biological Diversity

    2014
  • Hellman Fellowship

    2012-2013
  • UCLA Career Development Award

    2012
  • UK National Environmental Research Council (NERC) Fellowship

    2006-2010
  • Thomas Nevile Fellowship in Natural Sciences, Magdalene College, University Cambridge

    2006-2010
  • NSF ADVANCE Award Lecture, University of Arizona

    2009
  • Comer Abrupt Climate Change Fellowship

    2003-2005
  • Wolfson College Visiting Fellowship, University of Cambridge

    2002-2004
  • Marshall Sherfield Postdoctoral Fellowship

    2002-2003
  • Short-list for Michigan Society of Fellows

    2002
  • Gates Millennium Scholar

    2000-2002
  • Schlanger Ocean Drilling Program Graduate Fellowship

    2000
  • Gretchen L. Blechschmidt Award from Geological Society of America

    2000
  • Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Fellowship

    1999-2000
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Honorable Mention

    1997
  • UC Regents Fellowship

    1996-1997
  • Bahamian Field Course Scholarship

    1996
  • Perry Ehlig Summer Field Scholarship

    1996
  • CSU Statewide Research Competition Finalist

    1995
  • CSULA General Honors Scholarship

    1994
  • National Dean’s List

    1994
  • CSULA University Dean’s List

    1992-1996
  • University Early Entrance Program

    1992-1994