[2] She is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Philosophical Society (APS).

[6] She is currently the director of NEAT ORU (Nanomaterials in Environment, Agriculture, and Technology Organized Research Unit), a primary program in nanogeoscience.

Her research group (TherMotU) investigate a fundamental thermodynamics as it relates to nanomaterials, geology, and material science.

In 1997, she moved to University of California at Davis and became an Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry.

Obtaining the thermo chemical data is used to understand the compatibility and reactivity of materials in technological and geological application.

Navrotsky's calorimetry has also been used in providing thermo chemical data for a variety of perovskite-related phases which has major consequences for convection and evolution on a planetary scale.

One of Navrotsky's works has shown that many zeolitic and mesoporous phases have energies only slightly higher than those of their stable dense polymorphs.