Isabel P. Montañez

Education and Degree(s)

• Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1990)

Research Interests

• Geology; Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry

Bio

Isabel Montañez is a sedimentary geochemist and paleoclimatologist whose research focuses on reconstructing past global and regional climates, in particular those during warming and major climate transition. Her approach is interdisciplinary, integrating physical, biologic, and chemical proxies of environmental and ecosystem parameters with multiple scales of numeric modeling to study Earth system processes and their interactions during climate and ecosystem perturbation.

Websites

Google Scholar | profile

Wikipedia | Isabel P. Montañez

The UC Davis Institute of the Environment | Website

Honors and Awards

• Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
• Endowed Biogeochemistry Lecture, Geochemical Society
• The UC Davis Prize for Teaching and Scholarly Achievement
• Union Fellow of the AGU
• Francis J. Pettijohn Medal, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
• Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal, European Geosciences Union
• Lawrence L. Sloss Award for Sedimentary Geology, Geological Society of America
• Fellow of the Geochemical Society
• Fellow of the European Association of Geochemistry
• Chancellor's Leadership Professor
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
• F. Earl Ingerson Lecture, Geochemical Society
• Herbert A. Young Society Dean's Fellow, College of Letters and Sciences
• Fellow of the Geological Society of America
• James Lee Wilson Award for Excellence in Sedimentary Geology SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology's Young Scientist Award)
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists J. “Cam” Sproule Memorial Award

Press

• From UC Davis Unfold Podcast | The Climate Archive of Caves
• Isabel Patricia Montañez Appointed New Director of the John Muir Institute of the Environment