Marcia McNutt#
| Membership Number: | 4405 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
Present and Previous Positions
- Current - President, National Academy of Sciences, United States of America
- 2015 - present Professor, Georgetown University
- 5/2013 - 6/2016 Editor-in-Chief, Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 3/2013 - 5/2013 Visiting Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/IGPP
- 11/2009 - 2/2013 Director, US Geological Survey
- 10/1998 - 11/2009 Professor of Geophysics, Stanford University
- 6/1998 - 11/2009 Professor, Department of Earth Science, UC Santa Cruz (on leave)
- 9/1997 - 11/2009 President/CEO Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- 7/95 - 8/97 Director, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
- 7/93 - 7/95 Associate Director, MIT SeaGrant College Program
- 7/89 - 3/98 Professor of Geophysics, EAPS, MIT
- 7/86 Associate Professor of Geophysics, EAPS, MIT
- 7/82 - 7/86 Assistant Professor of Geophysics, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 6/79 - 6/82 Geophysicist, Branch of Tectonophysics, Office of Earthquake Studies, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
- 6/78 - 7/79 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- 1/78 - 6/78 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Fields of Scholarship
- Marine geophysics
- Tectonophysics
- Geodesy
- Gravimetry
- Geodynamics
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Class valedictorian, recipient of awards for mathematics, science and French
- 1970 - 1971 National Merit Scholarship
- 1973 Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude
- 1973 - 1976 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
- 1977 - 1978 University of California Dissertation Fellowship
- 1984, 1993 Journal of Geophysical Research Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing
- 1985 Graduate Student Council Award for Teaching
- 1985 - 1986 Mary Ingraham Bunting Fellow, Radcliffe College
- 1988 Macelwane Award, American Geophysical Union
- 1988 Fellowship, American Geophysical Union
- 1988 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, Colorado College
- 1989 - 1990 NSF Visiting Professorship for Women, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University
- 1991 - 2007 Griswold Professor of Geophysics
- 1993 Outstanding Alumni Award, The Blake Schools, Minneapolis
- 1996 - 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
- 1996 MIT School of Science Graduate Teaching Prize
- 1998 Fellowship, Geological Society of America
- 1997 Science and Technology Fellow, CSU Monterey Bay
- 1998 Fellowship, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 1999 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1998 Sanctuary Reflections Award, Special Recognition Category, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- 2002 Elected member American Philosophical Society
- 2003 ARCS Scientist of the Year
- 2004 National Associate, National Academy of Science
- 2004 Alumna of the Year, University of California, San Diego
- 2004 Doctor of Science, honoris causa, University of Minnesota
- 2005 Elected member, National Academy of Sciences
- 2007 Maurice Ewing Medal, American Geophysical Union
- 2008 Ocean Hero, Long Marine Lab, University of California Santa Cruz
- 2009 UC San Diego’s 100 Most Influential Alumni
- 2010 Meritorious Service Medal, US Coast Guard
- 2010 Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, Monmouth University
- 2011 Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, Colorado School of Mines
- 2012 Outstanding Chick in Science, Montana State University
- 2013 Ragan Communications, winner for “Best Blog”
- 2013 Ragan Communications, runner-up for “Best Executive Letter“
- 2016 Bathocordaeous mcnutti named in honor, http://rdcu.be/nRlz
- 2016 J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2016 Support of Science Award, Council of Science Society Presidents
