Isabelle Cozzarelli
USGS Geology, Energy, & Minerals Science Center in Reston, VA.
Dr. Cozzarelli is a a Senior Research Scientist Emerita with the USGS Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center and the Reston Biogeochemical Processes in Groundwater Laboratory. She specializes in interdisciplinary long-term research on the fate and effects of organic contaminants in surface and subsurface environments. Her research focuses on coupled hydrogeological, microbiological, and geochemical processes controlling reactions in contaminated systems, with a focus on contaminants important to the protection of water quality and ecosystem and human health.
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Cozzarelli has served as a technical advisor, reviewer, and review committee chair for HEI Energy. She has also served as Adjunct faculty in Virginia Tech’s Department of Geosciences and on a number of scientific journal editorial boards. She received the USGS Meritorious Service Award in 2017 and, in 2023, she received the “Friend of Water-Rock Interaction & Applied Isotope Geochemistry Award” from the International Association of Geochemistry.
Dr. Cozzarelli was a member of the International Advisory Board for the Danish GEOCON (Advancing GEOlogical, geophysical and CONtaminant monitoring technologies) multi-institution study for the period 2014-2018. Dr. Cozzarelli is an elected Fellow of the Geological Society of America. She holds a B.S. in Geomechanics from the University of Rochester, and a M.S. and PhD. in Environmental Sciences-Geochemistry from the University of Virginia.
