Marcia McNutt — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) since 2016.
Was the 15th director of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) from 2009 to 2013, the first woman to hold the post.
Served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Science from 2013 to 2016.
Held professorships in marine geophysics at Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chaired the NASEM climate intervention committee, which delivered two reports in 2015.
Earned a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1978.

Biography

Marcia Kemper McNutt is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States, a position she has held since 2016. Prior to this, she served as the 15th director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from 2009 to 2013, becoming the first woman to hold the post. During her time at USGS, she also acted as science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior from 2010 to 2013.