PODCAST | Protecting Antarctica with Dr. Nature McGinn, Part 2

Dr. Nature McGinn is the Environmental Policy Program Manager and Antarctic Conservation Act Permit Officer in the Office of Polar Programs at the National Science Foundation. Nature has been at NSF for over eight years, with her first two years as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (STPF) in the Office of Polar Programs, before entering a permanent position in the agency as an Environmental Policy Specialist in 2015. Nature earned her Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology from the University of California, Davis. The focus of her research was the impacts of environmental and anthropogenic stressors on reproduction and development in marine invertebrates. She followed her Ph.D. with a postdoc focusing on the reproductive biology of the endangered white abalone.

In this two-part episode, she talks about how the STPF fellowship helped to give her skills and open doors for a permanent job in federal government, and the work she does in her current position to help safeguard the environment and species in the world’s last true wilderness area – Antarctica.

Participants

Host: Chris Parsons Ph.D., 2020-22 Executive Branch Fellow, National Science Foundation
Twitter: @ecmparsons

Guest: Nature McGinn, Ph.D., 2012-14 Executive Branch Fellow, National Science Foundation

Producers

Producer & Executive Producer: Chris Parsons Ph.D., 2022-2022 Executive Branch Fellow, National Science Foundation
Twitter: @ecmparsons

Editor: Ashley Scarlett, Ph.D.
Twitter: @DrScarlettSmash

Image: Nature McGinn