Rate My Professor Branwen Williams

Williams has been recognized with several honors, including the Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award (Scholarship category) from Scripps College (2019), Claremont Faculty Leadership Program Fellowship (2018), National Geographic Explorer (2015 and 2018), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarships (2006-2009), AWIS Educational Foundation Goodman Predoctoral Award (2008), and Geological Society of America Harold T. Stearns Fellowship Award (2006). Notable publications include "The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification" (Science, 2012; 1,302 citations), "Deep-water Antipatharians: Proxies of Environmental Change?" (Geology, 2006), "Coralline Algal Growth-Increment Widths Archive North Atlantic Climate Variability" (Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2011), and "Calibration of the pH-δ¹¹B and Temperature-Mg/Li Proxies in the Long-Lived High-Latitude Crustose Coralline Red Alga Clathromorphum compactum" (Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019). She serves as an editor for Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems and has contributed to public outreach through National Geographic features and lectures such as "Inhabiting Earth: Stories from a Climate Scientist" at the CMC Athenaeum. Her work advances understanding of marine responses to climate change and informs resilience strategies for affected communities.