page_title: Marcia McNutt
section_title: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
hierarchical_section_title: Marcia McNutt / Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
caption_attribution_description: English: Main entrance of Monterey Bay Research Institute (MBARI), 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, California, United States
context_page_description: Marcia Kemper McNutt, ForMemRS, is an American geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. Previously, she served as editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Science from 2013 to 2016. McNutt holds a visiting appointment at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine advisory committee for the Division on Earth and Life Studies and the Forum on Open Science. McNutt chaired the NASEM climate intervention committee who delivered two reports in 2015.
  McNutt was the 15th director of the United States Geological Survey as well as science adviser to the United States Secretary of the Interior. Before 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.
context_section_description: McNutt was president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) from 1997 to 2009. During that time the RV Western Flyer, MBARI's research vessel, made expeditions from Canada to Baja California and the Hawaiian Islands. MBARI built the Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS), the first deep-sea cabled observatory in the continental United States.
caption: The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) was founded and privately funded by David Packard to be the "NASA of the oceans".[24]
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