Brown University (2010) NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship Bronwen Konecky is a paleoclimatologist[1] and climatologist[2] whose particular area of focus lies in the past and present effect of climate change in the tropics.
[5] 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.
[6] After graduating from Barnard College in 2005, Konecky began working with the African Millennium Villages Project as the Environmental Research Coordinator.
[11] 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.
[12] She is known for her work studying ancient and modern rainfall in the tropics, specifically around the Indian Ocean and in Africa.