Trotz has undertaken research with organisations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Inter-American Development Bank and Guyana Water Incorporated.
[1] Trotz's research centres around environmental engineering and education as a tool for sustainable development and widening participation.
[1] Trotz is also a board member for Fragments of Hope Corp, a non-governmental organisation which is dedicated to scalable solutions for coral reef restoration in Belize.
[6] In 2018, Trotz became the president of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), becoming the first African American woman to do so.
[4] In 2021 Trotz received the Steven K. Dentel AEESP Award for Global Outreach due to her "extensive" and "sustained portfolio of accomplishments".