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Professor Kliti Grice

Kliti Grice

John Curtin Distinguished Professor Kliti Grice is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and an internationally renowned organic geochemist who creatively combines geological information with data on molecular fossils and their stable carbon, hydrogen, sulfur and nitrogen isotopic compositions to reconstruct details of microbial, fungal and floral inhabitants of ancient aquatic environments (geobiology). She is well known for identifying geological and environmental basis  for some of the largest mass extinctions of life in Earth’s history. She is currently investigating the changes in the paleoenvironment in the Chicxulub crater (Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico) drilled by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) Expedition 364.

She has integrated molecular and isotopic information on plant and algal physiology, microbial ecology, food-webs, organic chemistry, and energy and environmental geochemistry with the geological record of our planet’s history. Her analyses of the natural variation in stable isotopes of lipids present in controlled growth experiments from extant plants, algae and grazing organisms have provided new insights into how these systems function across palaeoecological to modern timescales and across a wide spatial range. She is also researching geobiology of extinct species and especially environments associated with exceptional soft tissue preservation of fossils (Konservat and Konzentrat-Lagerstätten).

Grice’s outstanding research reputation has also attracted many national and international PhD and postdoctoral scholars to the wonders of Earth science.

 

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Prof Kliti Grice

Email: K.Grice@curtin.edu.au
Phone: +61(0)8 9266 2474
Fax: +61(0)8 9266 2300
Location: Room 500.2116, Bentley Campus, Bentley, WA 6102.

Postal address

WA-OIGC
Curtin University
GPO Box U1987
Perth, WA 6845
Australia

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Find us in the Resources and Chemistry Precinct (Building 500) on the campus map

Latest News and Updates

WA-OIGC at DISCOVER

25/01/2023

Recently, the WA-OIGC team had a blast at the DISCOVER event held at Curtin University from the 17th to the 19th of January. They had the opportunity to run an exciting Fossil Farm activity for 41 high school students who were keen on STEM. These young students were in year 9 and 10, and they got to experience different areas of science in Curtin’s Faculty of Science and Engineering.

During the activity, Prof. Kliti Grice, Luke Brosnan and Lisa Smith led the students in creating fossil concretions, learning about mass spectrometry, and seeing real-life fossils that are hundreds of millions of years old. They also had the chance to chat Dr. Alex Holman at the Innovator’s Expo, giving them a glimpse into the world of scientific research.

Professor Kliti Grice named Scientist of the Year

30/08/2022

Professor Kliti Grice was announced as Scientist of the Year for 2022 at the WA Premier’s Science Awards.

From providing insights into the mass extinction events that have shaped life, developing the tools to allow further exploration of the Earth’s record of environmental change, to training more than 30 PhD students, this award honours Professor Grice’s remarkable contribution to science.

Adding further to her enduring legacy, Professor Grice is now the University’s first female researcher to take out this prestigious award. Congratulations to Professor Grice!