Maureen Raymo

Maureen “Mo” Raymo’s research focuses on the history and causes of climate change in the past, including understanding the consequences of climate change for sea level and ice sheet stability in the future. Her research has been profiled in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, U.S. News and World Report, Discover Magazine, and elsewhere, and has been the subject of both a PBS Nova and BBC Horizon television documentary. Professor Raymo has spent many months at sea and in the field studying how the Earth works, leading or participating in numerous scientific expeditions. A fellow of the National Academy of Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, and The Explorer’s Club, in 2014 she became the first woman to be awarded the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society of London’s most senior medal previously award to Charles Lyell, Louis Agassiz and Charles Darwin. In 2019, she was awarded the AGU and US Navy’s Maurice Ewing Medal “for significant original contributions to the ocean sciences.”