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Marcia Kemper McNutt (born February 19, 1952) is an American geophysicist who is editor-in-chief of the journal ''Science''. McNutt holds a visiting appointment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She chaired the climate intervention committee of the National Academy of Sciences who delivered two reports in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Committee membership: Geoengineering Climate )〕 McNutt was the 15th director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior. Prior to working for USGS, McNutt 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. On July 6, 2015, she was nominated to stand for election in December as president of the National Academy of Sciences. ==Family and education== McNutt's father was a small business owner and her mother was a college-educated homemaker. In an interview with the National Academy of Sciences, McNutt said that in their household, women’s education was a tradition and a norm, and that her parents encouraged McNutt and her sisters academically.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/podcasts/interviews/marcia-mcnutt.html )〕 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 in underwater demolition and explosives handling with the U.S. Navy UDT and Seal Team.〔 McNutt is one of six women scientists featured in the 1995 PBS (WGBH-TV) series, "Discovering Women." How she excelled in science with a household of young daughters and the help of housekeeper Ann and her daughter is described by Jocelyn Steinke in "A portrait of a woman as a scientist: breaking down barriers created by gender-role stereotypes". McNutt has three daughters, two of whom are identical twins. Her daughter, Ashley Hoffmann, was "Miss Rodeo California" in 2009. McNutt is a horse enthusiast and enjoys barrel racing on her mare Lulu.〔 McNutt's first husband died in 1988. McNutt and Ian Young, an MBARI ship's captain, were married in 1996.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.agu.org/about/honors/union/ewing/mcnutt_marcia.shtml )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcia McNutt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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