M. GRACE ANDREWS
grace@earth.northwestern.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
2012 – Present
GPA: 3.928
Research Areas: isotope geochemistry, aqueous geochemistry, carbon cycling, climate change
M.S., Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
2014
B.A. with distinction, with honors, Earth Sciences, Boston University
2010
RESEARCH
Graduate Research, Northwestern University
Present-2014
“CO2 evasion at the margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Implications for a new global climate
feedback”
----------2012 - 2014
“The chemical weathering of mafic bedrock in Fiordland, New Zealand: Tracing atmospheric CO2
consumption with radiogenic and stable strontium isotopes”
Post-Undergraduate Research, Northwestern University
2010-2012
“Quantification of fossil fuel derived CO2 in Chicagoland water using stable carbon isotopes”
Senior Thesis, Boston University
2009-2010
“Oxygen and strontium isotope zonation in a shear zone garnet: evidence for open system
exchange”
Undergraduate Directed Studies, Boston University
2007-2009
“Development of a TIMS Total Evaporation method for measurement of stable strontium isotope
fractionation”
TEACHING
Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University
2015- 2013
Earth Systems Revealed (Earth 201); A combination lecture, lab, and fieldwork course. Primary
duties include weekly lab instruction and field instruction.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Sloss Fellowship, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University
2010 Goldschmidt Travel Grant, The Geochemical Society/NSF
Conference Participation Award, Boston University
2013
2010
2010
PUBLICATIONS
Andrews, M.G., Jacobson, A.D., Lehn, G.O., Horton, T.W., and Craw, D. Radiogenic and stable Sr isotope
ratios (87Sr/86Sr, δ88/86Sr) as tracers of riverine cation sources and biogeochemical cycling in the Milford
Sound region of Fiordland, New Zealand. Submitted June 2015.
A.D. Jacobson, M.G. Andrews, G.O. Lehn, and C. Holmden. (2015) Silicate versus carbonate weathering in
Iceland: New insights from Ca isotopes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.01.030.
ABSTRACTS/CONFERENCES
M.G. Andrews, A.D. Jacobson, and G.O. Lehn. Stable strontium isotopes (δ88/86Sr) as a tracer of Sr sources
and biogeochemical cycling in two catchments draining Fiordland, New Zealand. AGU, Fall 2014.
M.G. Andrews, E.F. Baxter, A.D. Pollington, M. Spicuzza and J.W. Valley. Oxygen and strontium isotope
zonation in shear zone garnet: evidence for open system exchange. Goldschmidt Conference, Knoxville TN,
2010.
AWARDS
Departmental Prize for Excellence in Earth Science, Boston University
2010
FIELDWORK
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland – 3 months per year
Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico – 2 weeks
Fiordland, New Zealand – 1 month
2015, 2014
2013
2012
RESEARCH SKILLS
Multi-Collector Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometer (MC-TIMS)
Inductively Coupled Plasma - Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES)
Ion Chromatograph (IC)
ArcGIS (Geographic Information Systems)
OUTREACH
Project EXCITE, Northwestern University
2015, 2014
Module Presenter: “Evidence for paleoclimates through leaf margin analysis”; EXCITE is a
collaborative educational and social outreach project between NU and Evanston, IL School Districts.
EXCITE addresses the achievement gap between minority and non-minority students by providing
extracurricular opportunities in mathematics and the sciences.
Girls Do Hack, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
2014
Mentor; GDH is designed to encourage female high school students to pursue STEM careers by
partnering them with female mentors in STEM fields. Together, students and mentors complete workshops
designed to bolster skills needed to succeed in STEM careers.
Interview, Boston University
2010
Johnson, R., 2010, Rock of Ages, Nelson, C., ed., Research Magazine 2010, Office of the Provost at
Boston University, Boston, p. 45-46.