Marcia McNutt

Marcia McNutt (2017)

Marcia Kemper McNutt (* 1952 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American geophysicist . She was acting director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and a scientific advisor to the US Department of the Interior . From 2013 to 2016 Marcia McNutt was "Editor in Chief" of Science magazine . She was the first woman in this position since Science was founded in 1880. She then became the first female president of the National Academy of Sciences in mid-2016 .

education

McNutt graduated from Northrop Collegiate School (now Blake School) in 1970 as a valedictorian ( top of the class who gave the graduation speech). In 1973 she received her bachelor's degree in physics with the distinction summa cum laude . She then studied geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography , where she received a Ph.D. in geosciences . McNutt is a NAUI certified diver; she has u. a. trained with the Underwater Demolition Team and the SEALs .

Career

After a brief stint at the University of Minnesota , she spent three years working on earthquake prediction at the USGS in Menlo Park . In 1982 she became Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . There she was Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Director of the Joint Program in Oceanography & Applied Ocean Science & Engineering at MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

From 1997 to 2009 she was CEO at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute . During this time, she took part in 15 oceanic expeditions, in over half of which she was a senior scientist.

Career as a science administrator

From 2000 to 2002 she was President of the American Geophysical Union . She was on the board of directors of the United Oceanographic Institutions in the USA.

In July 2009, it was announced that President Barack Obama has proposed McNutt as the new director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and advisor to the Department of the Interior. Her nomination was confirmed by the Senate on October 21 . She is the first woman to hold this position since the USGS was founded in 1879.

In 2015 she was nominated as the first woman to be President of the National Academy of Sciences for 2016, and she was elected in early 2016.

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She has published over 90 scientific articles. Among other things, she dealt with the properties of oceanic crusts in the Pacific region, the origins of island volcanism in the Pacific, with the continental splitting in the western United States and the elevation of the plateau of Tibet.

Memberships and honors

In 1988 she received the James B. Macelwane Medal and in 2007 the Maurice Ewing Medal (AGU) . She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union , the Geological Society of America , the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the American Philosophical Society , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , the Academia Europaea, and the Royal Society .

She is an honorary doctor from the University of Minnesota and Colorado College .

Fonts (selection)

• with DW Caress, J. Reynolds, KA Jordahl, RA Duncan: Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands, Nature , Volume 389, 1997, pp. 479-482
• Superswells, Reviews of Geophysics, Volume 36, 1998, p. 211.
• AV Judge: The Superswell and Mantle Dynamics Beneath the South Pacific, Science 248, 1990, pp. 969-975
• with Karen M. Fischer, Barbara H. Keating (editors): The South Pacific Superswell in Seamounts, Islands, and Atolls, Geophysical Monograph (American Geophysical Union) 43, 1987
• Lithospheric flexure and thermal anomalies, Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 89, B13, 1984, pp. 11180-11194.

Web links

Commons : Marcia McNutt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the USGS (English)
• Literature by and about Marcia McNutt in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see notification of the AAAS
2. ↑ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/10/MNKF18MLTJ.DTL San Francisco Chronicle
3. ↑ http://www.mbari.org/news/homepage/2009/marcia-usgs.html .
4. ↑ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-More-Key-Administration-Posts-7-9-09/
5. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/10/22/22greenwire-senate-confirms-nominees-for-interior-doe-23080.html
6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Washington Post, July 7, 2015
8. ↑ Feb. 16, 2016: National Academy of Sciences Elects President, Treasurer and Councilors. (No longer available online.) In: nasonline.org. February 16, 2016, archived from the original on February 21, 2016 ; Retrieved April 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-More-Key-Administration-Posts-7-9-09/