Marcia N. Macedo

Marcia N. Macedo is currently a Senior Scientist and Director of the Water Program at the Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Her research focuses on how land management and agricultural expansion interact with climate change to affect connections between aquatic ecosystems and upland tropical forests. She is a first generation American with Brazilian roots.

Early life and education Macedo's paternal grandparents were from the Amazon Region, and she spent a portion of her childhood in Brazil. When she visited the Amazon for the first time at age 12, she instantly fell in love with its diversity, animals, and food. It was then that she realized she wanted to be a scientist.

Career After earning her Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology at Columbia University in 2011, Macedo joined the Woodwell Climate Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow before being appointed as a staff scientist in 2014. Currently, she serves as a Senior Scientist and the Water Program Director. Last month, Macedo and three other scientists, under the leadership of Abra Atwood, were awarded grant funding for their project on how air temperature and land-use changes, such as housing development and the establishment of cranberry bogs, affects temperatures of coastal rivers in Massachusetts. and a recipient of the CHANS-Net Fellow Award.