Isabel P. Montañez

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Citizenship: American

Graduated university: Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Occupation: she is a Chancellor's Leadership Professor and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California, Davis.

Research Interests：

Deep-time Paleoclimatology Sedimentary Geology & Geochemistry Carbonate Diagenesis

Gender

Female

Subject

Geology

Affiliation

University of California, Davis University of California, Riverside

Title

Chancellor's Leadership Professor and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at University of California, Davis.

Education

Montañez attended Bryn Mawr College where she majored in geology and graduated with B.A. in 1981. After Bryn Mawr, she worked as a consultant and then as a museum technician for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History where she became interested in ancient climate change.She went on to work with Fred Read at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and was his first woman graduate student.She earned her Ph.D. in Geology in 1989.

Work Experience

Montañez started as an Assistant Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside in 1990 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995. She moved to the Department of Geology (now the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) at the University of California, Davis in 1998 where she continues to work as a Professor.She is also a role model for women in science in general, and Latina scientists in particular.

Achievement

Montanez was elected a Geochemical Fellow by The Geochemical Society and The European Association of Geochemistry in 2016 and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012 and received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 2011.James Lee Wilson Award for Excellence in Sedimentary Geology SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology’s Young Scientist Award) (1996) American Association of Petroleum Geologists J. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award (best published paper, by a young scientist, published by AAPG or an affiliated society) (1996)[citation needed] ‘SEPM Outstanding Paper for 1992’, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (1994)

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Degree

Ph.D.

Last Modified

2017-12-10

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