Biography: Professor Grottoli and her team are focused on three areas of research: 1- determining what drives resilience in corals in the face of climate change, 2- developing blue technology for enhancing coral survivorship and restoration success, and 3- reconstructing oceanographic conditions in the past based on coral skeletal isotope and trace metal records. She has published peer-reviewed journal articles in such journals as Nature, Global Change Biology, and Nature Communications, and she has  been featured on National Public Radio and several websites and newspapers. She is currently a College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in Earth Sciences in the School of Earth Sciences at the Ohio State University, a Fellow in the Office of Academic Affairs, and the Director of the NSF-funded Coral Bleaching Research Coordination Network. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS).

Awards and Recognition:
Marquis Who's Who (2024)
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2017)
Fellow, International Coral Reef Society (2016)
Fellow, Ohio State University President and Provost’s Leadership Institute (2015-2016)
Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation Academic Leadership Program (2013-2014)
Fulbright Scholar (France) 2020-2021 
President of the International Coral Reef Society (2019-2022)
Rachel Carson Lecturer, American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Section (2021)
Voyager Award (mid-career), American Geophysical Union’s Ocean Sciences Section (2018)
Mid-Career Award, International Coral Reef Society (2016)
Faculty Mentor Award, OSU School of Earth Sciences (2016)
F.W. Clarke Award, Geochemical Society, Young Scientist Award in Geochemistry (2004)
American Society of Mass Spectrometry Research Award (2003)
Best Paper Award in the journal Coral Reefs  (2000)

Selected Publications (of 93, *=student or postdoc advisee): 

2024 Denis V, Ferrier-Pages C, Schubert N, Coppari M, Baker DM, Camp EF, Gori A, Grottoli AG, Houlbrèque F, Maier S, Mancinelli G, Martinez S, Yalçin Ozdilek Y,  Radice VZ, Ribes M, Richter C, Viladrich N, Rossi S (2024) The Importance of Heterotrophy in Marine Animal Forests in an Era of Climate Change. Biological Reviews https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13053

2023 *Price JT, *McLachlan RH, Jury CP, Toonen RJ, Wilkins MJ, Grottoli AG. Long-term coral microbial community acclimatization is associated with coral survival in a changing climate. PlosOne, 18(9): e0291503, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291503 ; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291503

2023  *Chapron L, Kuffner IB, Kemp DW, *Hulver AM, Keister E, Stathakopoulos A, Barlett LA, Lyons EO, Grottoli AG.  Heterotrophy, microbiome, and location are vital to the restoration of the threatened coral Acropora palmata. Nature Communications Earth and Environment 4: 233, doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00888-1, https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00888-1

2022   van Woesik R, Shlesinger T, Grottoli AG, Toonen R, Vega Thurber R, Warner M, *Hulver AM, *Chapron L, *McLachlan RH, Albright R, Crandall E, DeCarlo TM, Donovan MK, Eirin-Lopez J, Harrison HB, Heron SF, Huang D, Humanes A, Krueger T, Madin J, Manzello D, McManus LC, Matz M, Muller EM, Rodriguez-Lanetty M, Vega-Rodriguez M, Voolstra CR, Zaneveld J, Coral-bleaching responses to climate change across biological scales. Global Change Biology, 28:4229–4250. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16192

2022  *McLachlan RH, *Price JT, Muñoz-Garcia A, Weisleder NL, Jury CP, Toonen RJ, Grottoli, AG Physiological acclimatization in Hawaiian corals following a 22-month shift in baseline seawater temperature and pH. Scientific Reports 12, 3712  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06896-z

2021  *McLachlan RH, *Dobson KL, Schmeltzer ER, Vega Thurber R, Grottoli AG, A review of coral bleaching specimen collection, preservation, and laboratory processing methods. PeerJ 9:e11763 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11763

2021  *Dobson KL, *Levas S, *Schoepf V, Warner ME, Cai WJ, Hoadley KD, Yuan X, Matsui Y, Melman TF, Grottoli AG (2021) Moderate nutrient concentrations are not detrimental to corals under future ocean conditions. Marine Biology 168: 98 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03901-3

2021  *Price JT, *McLachlan RH, Jury CP, Toonen RJ, Grottoli AG (2021) Isotopic approaches to estimating the contribution of heterotrophic sources to Hawaiian corals. Limnology and Oceanography 66(6): 2393-2407, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11760

2021   Grottoli AG, Toonen RJ, van Woesik R, Vega Thurber R, Warner ME, *McLachlan RH, *Price JT, Bahr KD, Baums IB, Castillo KD, Coffroth MA, Cunning R, *Dobson KL, Donahue MJ, Hench JL, Iglesias-Prieto R, Kemp DW, Kenkel CD, Kline DI, Kuffner IB, Matthews JL, Mayfield AB, Padilla-Gamiño JL, Palumbi S, Voolstra CR, Weis VM, Wu HC. Increasing comparability among coral bleaching experiments, Ecological Applications e2262, https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2262

2020  Grottoli AG, *Chapron L, *Gava D, Olesik J. Natural variability of skeletal elemental phosporus (P/Ca), lead (Pb/Ca), and barium (Ba/Ca) in the western Pacific sclerosponges Acanthoceatetes wellsi and Astrosclera willeyana. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems e2020GC009245, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009245

2020  *McLachlan RH, *Price J, *Solomon A, Grottoli AG. Thirty years of coral heat-stress experiments: a review of methods. Coral Reefs 39:885–902 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01931-9

2020  *Kelsey SA, Grottoli AG, Bauer JE, Matsui Y, *Huey-Sanders TM. Effects of agriculture and tillage practices on isotopic signatures and fluxes of organic and inorganic carbon in headwater streams. Aquatic Sciences 82:23 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-019-0691-7

2018  Grottoli AG, *Dalcin Martins P, Wilkins MJ, Johnston MD, Warner ME, Cai WJ, Melman TF, Hoadley KD, Pettay DT, Hu X, *Levas S, *Schoepf V, Coral physiology and microbiome dynamics under combined ocean warming and acidification.  PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191156,  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191156

2017   Grottoli AG, Tchernov D, Winters G, Physiological and Biogeochemical Responses of Super-Corals to Thermal Stress from the Northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea.  Frontiers in Marine Science 4:215, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00215

2014   Grottoli AG, Warner ME, *Levas SJ, Aschaffenburg M, *Schoepf V, McGinley M, *Baumann J, Matsui Y. The cumulative impact of annual coral bleaching turns some coral species winners into losers.  Global Change Biology 20(12):3823-3833,https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12658

2013   *Hughes A, Grottoli AG. Heterotrophic compensation: A possible mechanism for resilience of coral reefs to global warming or a sign of prolonged stress? PLoS ONE 8(11): e81172, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0081172

2013   Grottoli AG, *Matthews KA, *Palardy JE, McDonough WF. High resolution coral Cd measurements using LA-ICP-MS and ID-ICP-MS: Calibration and interpretation. Chemical Geology, 365: 151-159, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.024

2012  *Moyer RP, Grottoli AG, Olesik J. A multi-proxy record of terrestrial inputs to the coastal ocean using minor and trace elements (Ba/Ca, Mn/Ca, Y/Ca) and carbon isotopes (δ13C, Δ14C) in a nearshore coral from Puerto Rico.  Paleoceanography 27(3): PA3205, https://doi.org/10.1029/2011PA002249

2010  Grottoli AG, Adkins JF, Panero W, Reaman D, Moots K. Growth rates, stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O), and strontium (Sr/Ca) composition in two species of Pacific sclerosponges (Acanthocheatetes wellsi and Astroclera willeyana) with δ¹⁸O calibration and application to paleoceanography. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans 115(6): C06008, https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC005586

2007  *Rodrigues LJ, Grottoli AG. Energy reserves and metabolism as indicators of coral recovery from bleaching. Limnology and Oceanography 52(5): 1874-1882, https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2007.52.5.1874

2007  Grottoli AG, Eakin M. A review of modern coral δ18O and ∆14C proxy records.  Earth –Science Reviews 81(1-2): 67-91, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.10.001

2006  Grottoli AG, *Rodrigues LJ, *Palardy JE. Heterotrophic plasticity and resilience in bleached corals.  Nature 440(7088): 1186-1189, https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04565

1999 Grottoli AG. Variability in stable isotopes and maximum linear skeletal extension in reef corals in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Marine Biology 135(3): 437-449, https://doi.org/10.1007/s002270050644