Marcia McNutt | Academic Influence

Why Is Marcia McNutt Influential?

By Sara L. Austin, EdD

Areas of Specialization: Oceanography, Volcanology
Marcia McNutt is the 22nd President of the United States’ National Academy of Sciences. She earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Colorado College and a Ph.D in earth sciences from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

Her accomplishments are vast. She has served as chief scientist on a number of major oceanographic expeditions and conducted notable research on volcanoes and the rheology of “young” volcanoes. She served as the president and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, during which time they built the Monterey Accelerated Research System, which is the very first cabled observatory to be placed in the deepest oceans. She has also been certified by the National Association of Underwater Instructors to be a scuba instructor and even trained with the United States Navy SEALs on underwater demolition and explosive handling.

In 2009, she was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the first female director of the United States Geological Survey and a science advisor for the United States Secretary of the Interior. Significant work was completed during her tenure at the USGS, including a geologic surface map of Io, one of Jupiter’s moons and among the most volcanically active locations in our solar system.

McNutt was elected as president of the National Academy of Sciences in 2016, a seat she will hold until at least 2022.

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According to Wikipedia, Marcia Kemper McNutt 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.

Marcia McNutt's Published Works

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Published Papers

The grand challenges of Science Robotics (2018) (516)
Review of flow rate estimates of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2011) (445)
Lithospheric flexure and thermal anomalies (1984) (303)
Combating COVID-19—The role of robotics in managing public health and infectious diseases (2020) (247)
Enhancing reproducibility for computational methods (2016) (239)
Lithospheric flexure and uplifted atolls (1978) (215)
Journals unite for reproducibility (2014) (211)
Data sharing (2016) (197)
Constraints on yield strength in the oceanic lithosphere derived from observations of flexure (1982) (193)
Variations of elastic plate thickness at continental thrust belts (1988) (174)
Lithospheric Extension Near Lake Mead, Nevada: A Model for Ductile Flow in the Lower Crust (1991) (173)
Climate Change Impacts (2013) (171)
A simple proposal for the publication of journal citation distributions (2016) (165)
The Superswell and Mantle Dynamics Beneath the South Pacific (1990) (158)
Seismic imaging of hotspot-related crustal underplating beneath the Marquesas Islands (1995) (155)
Implications of regional gravity for state of stress in the Earth's crust and upper mantle (1980) (142)
Failure of plume theory to explain midplate volcanism in the southern Austral islands (1997) (136)
Transparency in authors’ contributions and responsibilities to promote integrity in scientific publication (2018) (135)
Mapping the descent of Indian and Eurasian plates beneath the Tibetan Plateau from gravity anomalies (1996) (131)
Mercury and Health (2013) (123)
Bathymetric prediction from Seasat altimeter data (1983) (121)
Science in support of the Deepwater Horizon response (2012) (118)
Compensation of oceanic topography: an application of the response function technique to the Surveyor area (1979) (118)
Statistics for the one‐norm misfit measure (1980) (116)
Evidence from gravity and topography data for folding of Tibet (1994) (110)
Applications of science and engineering to quantify and control the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2012) (102)
Evidence for and consequences of thermal rejuvenation (1982) (99)
Self-correction in science at work (2015) (94)
The Marquesas archipelagic apron: Seismic stratigraphy and implications for volcano growth, mass wasting, and crustal underplating (1994) (92)
Thermal and mechanical properties of the Cape Verde Rise (1988) (90)
Role of subsurface loads and regional compensation in the isostatic balance of the transverse ranges, California: Evidence for intracontinental subduction (1986) (90)
Influence of plate subduction on isostatic compensation in northern California (1983) (87)
Isostasy in Australia and the Evolution of the Compensation Mechanism (1978) (87)
Estimating the Compensation Depth of the Hawaiian Swell With Linear Filters (1986) (79)
Reproducibility (2014) (72)
The origin of the Marquesas fracture zone ridge and its implications for the nature of hot spots (1989) (69)
Liberating field science samples and data (2016) (61)
A shallow, chemical origin for the Marquesas Swell (2000) (60)
Crustal structure of the Tuamotu Plateau, 15°S, and implications for its origin (1995) (59)
Elastic thickness of the lithosphere in the Marquesas and Society Islands (1993) (58)
The Darwin Rise: A Cretaceous superswell? (1990) (58)
The relationship between plate curvature and elastic plate thickness: A study of the Peru-Chile Trench (1991) (57)
Neurobehavioral Effects of Interferon-α in Patients with Hepatitis-C: Symptom Dimensions and Responsiveness to Paroxetine (2012) (51)
An Experimental Approach to Thermochemical Convection in the Earth's Core (Paper 92GL01883) 1995 (1992) (46)
The South Pacific superswell (2013) (45)
Cancer Immunotherapy (2013) (44)
Volcanism and archipelagic aprons in the Marquesas and Hawaiian Islands (1994) (42)
Lithospheric deformation beneath the Altyn Tagh and West Kunlun faults from recent gravity surveys (2004) (39)
Implications of new gravity data for Baikal rift zone structure (1993) (39)
Thermal and mechanical constraints on the lithosphere beneath the Marquesas swell (1986) (39)
Geoid anomalies over the Canary Islands Group (1989) (39)
Nonuniform magnetization of seamounts: A least squares approach (1986) (39)
Compensation of Paleozoic orogens: a comparison of the Urals to the Appalachians (1988) (37)
The seafloor swells and Superswell in French Polynesia (1998) (36)
Scenario-Building for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2010) (35)
Scientific basis for safely shutting in the Macondo Well after the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout (2012) (34)
Compensation of Cretaceous Seamounts of the Darwin Rise, northwest Pacific Ocean (1991) (33)
Heat flow on hot spot swells: Evidence for fluid flow (2007) (33)
Regional compensation of the Greater Caucasus mountains based on an analysis of Bouguer gravity data (1990) (33)
Gravity Field over Northern Eurasia and Variations in the Strength of the Upper Mantle (1993) (32)
Submarine hydrogeology of the Hawaiian archipelagic apron: 1. Heat flow patterns north of Oahu and Maro Reef (2000) (32)
The Geoid: effect of compensated topography and uncompensated oceanic trenches (1982) (28)
Opinion: “Plan S” falls short for society publishers—and for the researchers they serve (2019) (27)
Constraints on thermal and mechanical structure of the oceanic lithosphere at the Bermuda Rise from geoid height and depth anomalies (1989) (26)
Living on an Active Earth: Perspectives on Earthquake Science (2003) (25)
Leveling the Playing Field (2013) (25)
A near-bottom geophysical traverse of the Reykjanes Ridge (1978) (24)
A community for disaster science (2015) (24)
The drought you can't see (2014) (23)
Submarine hydrogeology of the Hawaiian archipelagic apron: 2. Numerical simulations of coupled heat transport and fluid flow (2000) (22)
Wake-up call from Hong Kong (2018) (22)
Breakthrough to genome editing (2015) (22)
Why there are no earthquakes on the Marquesas Fracture Zone (1995) (22)
Sequential multiple-assignment randomized trial design of neurobehavioral treatment for patients with metastatic malignant melanoma undergoing high-dose interferon-alpha therapy (2009) (22)
Depression, deficits in functional capacity, and impaired glycemic control in urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes. (2014) (21)
The measure of research merit (2014) (21)
Lithospheric stress and deformation (1987) (20)
The beyond-two-degree inferno (2015) (20)
Racial/Ethnic differences among smokers: revisited and expanded to help seekers. (2014) (20)
Modal depths from shipboard bathymetry: There is a south pacific superswell (1996) (20)
My love-hate of Sci-Hub (2016) (20)
The hunt for MH370 (2014) (19)
Signaling the trustworthiness of science (2019) (18)
Paleomagnetism of northern Cocos seamounts: Constraints on absolute plate motion (1981) (17)
The Impact of Escitalopram on IL-2-Induced Neuroendocrine, Immune, and Behavioral Changes in Patients with Malignant Melanoma: Preliminary Findings (2013) (17)
Another Nail in the Plume Coffin? (2006) (17)
Shear strength of the Great Pacific Fracture Zones (1992) (17)
Marine geodynamics: Depth‐age revisited (1995) (17)
Acculturation Predicts 7-Day Smoking Cessation Among Treatment-Seeking African-Americans in a Group Intervention (2012) (16)
Associations between coping, affect, and social support among low-income African American smokers. (2013) (16)
Editorial expression of concern (2015) (16)
Southern California uplift—Is it or isn't it?* (1981) (16)
Geophysical constraints on the shear stress along the Marquesas Fracture Zone (1992) (15)
Cretaceous Guyots in the Northwest Pacific: an Overview of their Geology and Geophysics (2013) (15)
Flexure reveals great depth (1990) (15)
Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere (2002) (13)
Culturally specific versus standard smoking cessation messages targeting Hispanics: An experiment. (2015) (13)
Academies’ action plan for germline editing (2019) (12)
Multiple episodes of volcanism in the Southern Austral Islands: Flexural constraints from bathymetry, seismic reflection, and gravity data (2004) (11)
Time's up, CO2 (2019) (11)
Reply [to “Comments on ‘Lithospheric flexure and uplifted atolls’“[ (1979) (11)
Project NEPTUNE: an interactive, regional cabled ocean observatory in the Northeast Pacific (2003) (10)
Extremal bounds on geotherms in eroding mountain belts from metamorphic pressure-temperature conditions (1987) (10)
Improving Scientific Communication (2013) (10)
Preparing for Disasters (2013) (10)
#IAmAResearchParasite (2016) (9)
Overdue: a US advisory board for research integrity (2019) (9)
Sea-Floor Topography and Morphology of the Superswell Region (2004) (9)
Pacific-Farallon Relative Motion 42-59 Ma Determined from Magnetic and Tectonic Data from the Southern (1998) (9)
Bricks and MOOCs (2013) (8)
Health Systems Interventions to Prevent Firearm Injuries and Death (2019) (8)
Data, eternal (2015) (8)
The effects of changes in plate motions on the shape of the Marquesas Fracture Zone (1994) (8)
Implicit bias (2016) (8)
Climate warning, 50 years later (2015) (8)
Convergence in the Geosciences (2017) (8)
Crust and Lithospheric Structure – Hot Spots and Hot-Spot Swells (2007) (7)
Results of the Basin and Range Geoscientific Experiment (BARGE): A marine‐style seismic reflection survey across the eastern boundary of the central Basin and Range Province (2000) (7)
The Pope tackles sustainability (2014) (7)
Biology of Depression and Cytokines in Cancer (2010) (7)
Pulmonary embolism in a patient with catatonia: an old disease, changing times. (2011) (7)
Raising the bar (2014) (7)
Yellowstone: A continental midplate (hot spot) swell (1994) (7)
Preparing for the next Katrina (2015) (6)
Gravity field over the former Soviet Union mapped (1994) (6)
Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, 144 Scientific Results (1995) (6)
Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication (2017) (6)
An evaluation of the seismic-window theory for earthquake prediction (1981) (6)
Parks for science (2015) (6)
An Astrobiology Strategy for the Search for Life in the Universe (2019) (5)
Lessons from the crucible of crisis (2020) (5)
Black swans, wicked problems, and science during crises (2011) (5)
Due process in the Twitter age (2016) (5)
Give women an even chance (2015) (5)
Deep causes of hotspots (1990) (4)
Correction to “Role of subsurface loads and regional compensation in the isostatic balance of the transverse ranges, California: Evidence for intracontinental subduction” by Barbara Sheffels and Marcia McNutt (1987) (4)
Geologic Map of the southern Funeral Mountains including nearby Groundwater Discharge Sites in Death Valley National Park, California and Nevada (2012) (4)
Hazards without disasters (2016) (4)
Earth science: The mantle's lava lamp (1999) (4)
Isostasy in the USSR I: Admittance Data (2013) (4)
The Science of Sustainability (2013) (4)
Oceans and Earth's habitability (2015) (3)
Getting into Earth (1986) (3)
Ignorance is not an option (2015) (3)
Be one of the first (2014) (3)
It starts with a poster (2015) (3)
New members of the family (2016) (3)
Climate Intervention: Possible Impacts on Global Security and Resilience (2016) (3)
Self-Correction by Design (2020) (3)
Heat Flow Variations Over Hawaiian Swell Controlled by Near‐Surface Processes, Not Plume Properties (2013) (3)
Accelerating Ocean Exploration (2013) (3)
AAAS News and Notes (2014) (3)
More Science in the Classroom (2014) (3)
Editorial retraction. (2016) (3)
No Windfall for U.S. Science (2014) (2)
The 5-billion-dollar bumps (1996) (2)
Reply to Kiley and Smits: Meeting Plan S’s goal of maximizing access to research (2019) (2)
Integrity—not just a federal issue (2015) (2)
Science Demystified (2013) (2)
Mapping the seafloor from space (1996) (2)
Engineering the Ocean (2001) (2)
Extremal bounds on geotherms in uplifting and eroding mountain belts from metamorphic pressure-temperature conditions (1985) (2)
Think Outside the Lab (2014) (2)
Research integrity revisited (2017) (2)
The Future of Marine Geology and Geophysics : report of a workshop : Ashland Hills, Oregon, December 5-7, 1996 (1996) (2)
Ex-Smokers (2020) (2)
Robotics takes off (2016) (2)
Shutdown! (2013) (2)
The new “excess page fee” policy (1992) (2)
Marcia K. McNutt awarded 1988 Macelwane Medal (1988) (2)
Geophysical Methods in Geology (1987) (1)
Keystone XL (2014) (1)
Harmonic spline representation of geophysical data (1983) (1)
Women in Oceanography: 20 Years of Progress, Change, and Challenge (2008) (1)
Two case studies of collaborations between aquariums and research institutions in exploration and education (2001) (1)
Academies’ Call to Action: Air Pollution Threatens Global Health (2019) (1)
Promoting diversity and inclusion in STEMM starts at the top. (2021) (1)
Bathymetric Surveys at Highway Bridges Crossing the Missouri River in Kansas City, Missouri, using a Multibeam Echo Sounder, 2010 (2010) (1)
Editorial retraction (2015) (1)
Scientific Meetings: Worth Attending (2008) (1)
Antibody validation roundtable specificity + sensitivity + reproducibility = validation (2014) (1)
Converting analog interpretive data to digital formats for use in database and GIS applications (2010) (1)
Bridge or Crutch? (2013) (1)
Temperature Beneath Midplate Swells: The Inverse Problem (2013) (1)
How to prepare author-produced copy for JGr papers (1991) (1)
Transparency in Authors’ Contributions and Responsibilities to Promote Integrity in Scientific Publication (2018) (1)
Editorial expression of concern (2015) (1)
Heat Flow on Hotspot Swells Reflect Fluid Flow Masking Potential Variations in Mantle Heat Flux (2004) (1)
Combatting the information explosion (1991) (1)
Isostasy in the USSR II: Interpretation of Admittance Data (2013) (1)
Low Heat Flow Values Measured on the Hawaiian Ridge (2001) (1)
Retraction. Observation of chiral currents at the magnetic domain boundary of a topological insulator. (2015) (1)
Progress Toward Implementation of the 2013 Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (2020) (1)
Societies can combat harassment (2016) (1)
Serving Intersectional Scientific Foci (2002) (1)
Policy offers protection from harassment (1996) (1)
Li and Me (2014) (1)
Mapping the Upper Mantle Lithospheric Structures of China With Gravity Data (2001) (1)
Science and equality of opportunity (2020) (1)
Science for lasting peace (2014) (1)
Economics of public safety (2016) (1)
Chapter 3 long term dynamics of the solid earth (1989) (0)
Five years of Science Robotics (2021) (0)
Examining Weight Gain in Treatment-Seeking African American Smokers: A Biopsychosocial Approach (2016) (0)
Explanatory Models of Illness (2013) (0)
Oceanic island evolution: islands. (1988) (0)
A new look (2014) (0)
PREview of new products (2016) (0)
Reply [to “Comment on ‘Policy offers protection from harassment” by Marcia McNutt”] (1997) (0)
Engaging new scientific horizons (2015) (0)
The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do (2004) (0)
Civilization-Saving Science for the Twenty-First Century (2021) (0)
The New Patrons of Research (2014) (0)
Oceanic Island Evolution: Islands . H. W. Menard. Scientific American Books, New York, 1987. xvi, 230 pp., illus. $32.95. Scientific American Library, vol. 17. (1988) (0)
Comment: A year on the job, she takes pride in disaster response (2010) (0)
Editorial expression of concern. (2016) (0)
Whither (wither?) tenure? (2015) (0)
Exxon Valdez: 25 Years Later (2014) (0)
Geophysics. Another nail in the plume coffin? (2006) (0)
Frank Press (1924–2020) (2020) (0)
Ralph J. Cicerone (1943–2016) (2016) (0)
Analysis of gravity, magnetic, and seismic reflection data from Tibet and neighboring regions of China (1993) (0)
The Fine Art of Scientific Advocacy: A Tribute to Tom Lovejoy. (2022) (0)
Actionable Science: Delivering Science to Decision-Makers During Crisis (2015) (0)
SHEAR STRENGTH OF THE GREAT PACIFIC FRAZONES (1992) (0)
Basis of the coherence technique (1990) (0)
Editor's note. (2015) (0)
Responding to Climate Change at the Poles: Findings from the National Research Council's Reports on Climate Intervention (2015) (0)
Fostering Integrity in Research (2017) (0)
HIV cover ill-advised--response. (2014) (0)
Passion is just the start (2015) (0)
Five years of translation (2014) (0)
An Assessment of Four Divisions of the Physical Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2018) (0)
USGS science in the gulf oil spill: Novel science applications in a crisis (2011) (0)
Earth sciences: Calculating continental strength from thermal history (1985) (0)
What is the Role of Journals in Promoting Trustworthy Research (2019) (0)
The promise of scalable direct air capture (2021) (0)
Meanwhile, back “At the National Academies” (2020) (0)
Gravity (2019) (0)
Calculating continental strength from thermal history (1985) (0)
The Strategic Council for Research Excellence, Integrity, and Trust (2021) (0)
The future of marine geosciences discussed (1997) (0)
Report of the panel on plate motion and deformation, section 2 (1991) (0)
Gravity and isostasy (1989) (0)
Happy Birthday Science Advances! (2015) (0)
Science Advances (2014) (0)
USGS scientists open to change (2016) (0)
How many volunteers does it take to run AGU (1999) (0)
Editorial expression of concern. (2014) (0)
The week in science: 19–25 February 2016 (2016) (0)
Changing Journal Practices to Encourage Better Science (2016) (0)
Fast horses (2016) (0)
Thinking outside the lab: Finding a fulfilling non-research career (2014) (0)
McNutt Receives 2007 Maurice Ewing Medal (2008) (0)
1985 Bowie Medal to H. William Menard (1986) (0)
Five Years of Advancing Science, Improving Health (2014) (0)
Presidential Town Hall with Marcia McNutt: Charting a Course for Evidence-Based Policy in the Face of “Extreme Events” (2019) (0)
U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5235 (2011) (0)
Science stands by 2009 fisheries study (2016) (0)
An Assessment of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2018) (0)
Exploration-Resource Assessment Guides (2012) (0)
What Awaits the New NSF Director (2013) (0)
Risk (2013) (0)
Breakthrough to our origins (2014) (0)
Impact of GRM: New evidence from the Soviet Union (1985) (0)
Report of the panel on lithospheric structure and evolution, section 3 (1991) (0)
Toward a Unified Understanding of Mercury and Methylated Mercury from the World's Oceans (2012) (0)
Red/Blue and Peer Review (2017) (0)
Promoting Disaster Science and Disaster Science Communities as Part of Sound Disaster Preparedness (2015) (0)
'I Think Kick-Starting the Process is Very Important' (2005) (0)
AGU online journals: An open letter to librarians (2002) (0)
Reply [to “Comments on ‘Lithospheric flexure and uplifted atolls’ by Marcia K. McNutt and H. W. Menard”] (1979) (0)
GSA PRESIDENT'S MEDAL: CIVILIZATION-SAVING SCIENCE FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (2021) (0)
Reply to Kornfeld and Titus: No distraction from misconduct (2019) (0)
Report Series: Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (2020) (0)
Passing the Baton (2013) (0)
Song for an Ocean Planet (2001) (0)

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