 Between 2008 and 2014, Bronk served as the president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, and she was named a sustaining fellow of the organization in 2015.In 2018, Bronk received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the state's highest honor for faculty at its public and private colleges and universities.Between 2017 and 2019, she served as chair of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents.