44 Facts About Marcia McNutt

Marcia Kemper McNutt was born on February 19,1952 and is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.

Marcia McNutt served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Science from 2013 to 2016 and holds a visiting appointment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Marcia McNutt is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine advisory committee for the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Forum on Open Science.

Marcia McNutt chaired the NASEM climate intervention committee who delivered two reports in 2015.

Marcia McNutt was valedictorian of her class at the Northrop Collegiate School in Minneapolis, graduating in 1970.

Marcia McNutt previously served as director of the Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, a cooperative effort of MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Marcia McNutt is a National Association of Underwater Instructors -certified scuba diver and trained in underwater demolition and explosives handling with the Underwater Demolition Team of the United States Navy and the United States Navy SEALs.

Marcia McNutt is a horse enthusiast and enjoys barrel racing on her mare Lulu.

In 1994, Marcia McNutt was one of 16 women faculty in the School of Science at MIT who drafted and co-signed a letter to the then-Dean of Science Robert Birgeneau, which started a campaign to highlight and challenge gender discrimination at MIT.

Marcia McNutt participated in 15 major oceanographic expeditions and served as chief scientist on more than half of them.

Marcia McNutt's research has included studies of ocean island volcanism in French Polynesia, continental break-up in the Western United States, and uplift of the Tibet plateau.

Marcia McNutt has made notable contributions to the understanding of the rheology and strength of the lithosphere.

Marcia McNutt showed that young volcanoes could flex the lithosphere, influencing the elevation of nearby volcanoes, and used a 3-D analysis of topography and gravity data to show that the Australian plate could be strong on short time scales and weak on long scales.

Marcia McNutt showed how subducting ocean plates could weaken and identified a large topographic feature called the South Pacific superswell.

Marcia McNutt was president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute from 1997 to 2009.

Marcia McNutt chaired the NASEM climate intervention committee who delivered two reports in 2015.

In July 2009, Marcia McNutt was announced as President Obama's nominee to be the next director of the United States Geological Survey and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior.

Marcia McNutt was the first woman to lead the USGS since its establishment in 1879.

In May 2010, Marcia McNutt headed the Flow Rate Technical Group which attempted to measure the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Marcia McNutt agreed to pay US$4.5 billion including US$1.256 billion in criminal fines.

Marcia McNutt participated in the reversal of a 2006 USGS policy that required agency scientists to submit their work to two internal reviewers and obtain a sign-off from a higher level official before submitting their work to external journals who then applied their own peer-review process.

Marcia McNutt commented on work by lead researcher Carol Meteyer and others from the USGS National Wildlife Health Center and the National Institutes of Health in November 2012:.

Marcia McNutt said more information would reduce the risk of induced earthquakes in a year or two.

Marcia McNutt wrote that Landsat 8 enhances USGS's position as land steward for the United States.

Marcia McNutt directed USGS from 2009 until 2013, when she announced her departure to USGS staff members.

Marcia McNutt said at the time that she would leave after the launch of Landsat 8 and that Suzette Kimball would serve as the acting director.

Marcia McNutt's announcement included a 21-point summary of her tenure which she prepared for Secretary Salazar.

Marcia McNutt told Library Journal that they were searching for a solution to licensing, perhaps one license acceptable to all authors or perhaps offering a menu of licenses so each community can choose.

Marcia McNutt initially sided with environmentalists who opposed approval of the Keystone Pipeline.

Several US agencies including the Central Intelligence Agency requested that the US government study climate engineering and so the committee that Marcia McNutt chairs was born of the National Academy of Sciences.

Marcia McNutt published a formal apology in July 2015, and said that she thought Science should start an advisory board made up of young scientists who might be in tune with the issues.

In July 2015, Marcia McNutt was nominated to stand for election as president of the National Academy of Sciences.

Marcia McNutt was elected to a six-year term beginning July 1,2016 and ending June 30,2022.

Marcia McNutt chaired the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Geoengineering Climate: Technical Evaluation and Discussion of Impacts, whose sixteen scientists published their findings on climate geoengineering in February 2015.

At the press briefing on the release of the reports, Marcia McNutt expressed preference for the first report over the second: mitigation and adaptation are the way forward.

Marcia McNutt was elected a Foreign member of the Royal Society, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Marcia McNutt is a fellow for the American Geophysical Union, the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Association of Geodesy.

Marcia McNutt is a past president of the American Geophysical Union and the National Academy of Sciences.

Marcia McNutt holds honorary doctorates from Indiana University, Boston University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Michigan State University, Colorado School of Mines Monmouth University, the University of Minnesota, and Colorado College.

Marcia McNutt was recognized as an Outstanding Alumni in 2004 by the University of California, San Diego.

Marcia McNutt chaired the President's Panel on Ocean Exploration under President Bill Clinton.

Marcia McNutt chaired the board of governors of the Joint Oceanographic Institutions which merged to become Consortium for Ocean Leadership for which she was trustee.

Marcia McNutt serves on evaluation and advisory boards for institutions including the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford University, Harvard University and Science magazine, and the Journal of Science Policy and Governance.

In 1988, Marcia McNutt won the Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union, presented for outstanding research by a young scientist, and in 2007 she won the AGU's Maurice Ewing Medal for her contributions to deep-sea exploration and her leadership role in the ocean sciences.