Marcia McNutt

Marcia Kemper McNutt (1952-) is an American geophysicist. She is director of the United States Geological Survey and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior. She was president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, an oceanographic research center in the United States, professor of marine geophysics at the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences and professor of marine geophysics a... more

Marcia Kemper McNutt (1952-) is an American geophysicist. She is director of the United States Geological Survey and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior. She was president and chief executive officer of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, an oceanographic research center in the United States, professor of marine geophysics at the Stanford University School of Earth Sciences and professor of marine geophysics at University of California, Santa Cruz. She was valedictorian of her class at the Northrop Collegiate School (now The Blake School), graduating in 1970. She received a bachelor's degree in physics summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Colorado College in 1973. As a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, she then studied geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography where she earned a PhD in earth sciences in 1978. Her dissertation was titled Continental and Oceanic Isostasy. McNutt is a NAUI-certified scuba diver and she trained... less