| Citation | Marcia McNutt has had a varied and distinguished career. Her early work in Geophysics at MIT was principally concerned with gravity, especially at sea. She was one of the first people to use gravity to explore the rheology of plates, and to use satellite gravity measurements of the sea surface to map bathymetry. She moved to be President/CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 1997, where she played an important part in the development of new oceanographic instruments, and especially of remote vehicles that could map the sea floor. In 2009 she became the director of the US Geological Survey, where she was deeply involved in the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, and especially with the development of new approaches to dealing with environmental disasters. In 2013 she became the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Science, and in 2016 became the first woman to be made President of the US National Academy of Sciences. |