Mary Newton Lima

Mary Newton Lima is the MIT Sea Grant Research Program Coordinator and joined the team in January 2020. Prior to moving to MIT, Mary filled a similar role for a small nonprofit marine research organization on Cape Cod and researched the fast-rising development of offshore wind farms along the Atlantic coast of the United States. Before that, Mary worked as a risk assessor on EPA Superfund, brownfield, and other private or government owned properties analyzing the soil, groundwater, surface water and air for potential chemical contaminants, as well as a marine biologist and environmental scientist during her 20+ year career in private, public and nonprofit organizations.

Education:

M.S. in Marine Biology and Fisheries, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami (research focus on elasmobranch biology)

B.A. in Earth and Environmental Science, Wesleyan University