Bronwen Konecky

In her senior year of high-school, Konecky took an A.P. Environmental Science class which sparked her curiosity into the sciences. 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. {{Cite web|url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/earth-environmental-planetary-sciences/research-areas/earth-systems-history-esh/research-group/alumni-esh-group-brown|title=Alumni of the Climate & Environment Group at Brown {{!}} Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences|website=www.brown.edu|access-date=2019-09-23|archive-date=2019-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923142200/https://www.brown.edu/academics/earth-environmental-planetary-sciences/research-areas/earth-systems-history-esh/research-group/alumni-esh-group-brown|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite thesis|title=Decadal to Orbital Scale Climate Change in the Indian Ocean Region: Precipitation Isotopic Perspectives from East Africa and Indonesia|publisher=Brown University|date=2014|language=en|first=Bronwen L.|last=Konecky|doi=10.7301/Z0DJ5D05}}

After graduating from Barnard College in 2005, Konecky began working with the African Millennium Villages Project as the Environmental Research Coordinator.{{Cite journal|last1=Zamba|first1=Colleen|last2=Wangila|first2=Justine|last3=Wang|first3=Karen|last4=Teklehaimanot|first4=Awash|last5=Siriri|first5=David|last6=Said|first6=Amir|last7=Sachs|first7=Sonia Ehrlich|last8=Place|first8=Frank|last9=Okoth|first9=Herine|date=2007-10-23|title=The African Millennium Villages|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=104|issue=43|pages=16775–16780|doi=10.1073/pnas.0700423104|issn=0027-8424|pmid=17942701|pmc=2040451|doi-access=free |bibcode=2007PNAS..10416775S }} The project's goal was to assist communities in rural Africa get out of extreme poverty and she stayed with the project until 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/1799|title=Millennium Villages – The Earth Institute – Columbia University|website=www.earth.columbia.edu|access-date=2019-09-23}} In 2013, she worked in the Cobb lab as a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.{{Cite web|url=http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kcobb/alumni/people.html|title=Cobb Lab Alumni|website=shadow.eas.gatech.edu|access-date=2019-09-23|archive-date=2019-09-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190905162850/http://shadow.eas.gatech.edu/~kcobb/alumni/people.html|url-status=dead}} Between 2014 and 2016, Konecky was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1433408|title=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|website=www.nsf.gov|access-date=2019-09-23}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://cires.colorado.edu/student/bronwyn-konecky|title=Bronwyn Konecky|website=CIRES|language=en|access-date=2019-09-23|date=2016-04-15 |author1=Widi9545 }} 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.

Konecky's primary fields of research are Paleoclimateology, Climatology and Hydrogeology.{{Cite journal|last1=Konecky|first1=B. L.|last2=Noone|first2=D. C.|last3=Cobb|first3=K. M.|date=2019|title=The Influence of Competing Hydroclimate Processes on Stable Isotope Ratios in Tropical Rainfall|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|language=en|volume=46|issue=3|pages=1622–1633|doi=10.1029/2018GL080188|issn=1944-8007|bibcode=2019GeoRL..46.1622K|doi-access=free}} She is known for her work studying ancient and modern rainfall in the tropics, specifically around the Indian Ocean and in Africa.

• AGU Nanne Weber Early Career Award (2019){{Cite web |title=AGU - American Geophysical Union |url=https://www.agu.org/Search/PublicProfile?userId=E553365B-4EDC-4CBD-91B5-7626A6206904#citationE63A7DFF-72CF-4EB0-BC88-9A9A6B78C079 |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=www.agu.org}}
• Packard Science and Engineering Fellowship (2019){{Cite web |title=Bronwen Konecky |url=https://www.packard.org/what-we-fund/science/packard-fellowships-for-science-and-engineering/fellowship-directory/bronwen-konecky/ |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=The David and Lucile Packard Foundation |language=en-US}}

In her spare time, Konecky also is a singer-songwriter.{{cite journal |last1=Dacey |first1=James |title=Rocking the status quo in science |journal=Physics World |date=27 January 2016 |url=https://physicsworld.com/a/rocking-the-status-quo-in-science/ |accessdate=9 October 2019 |publisher=Institute of Physics}}

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