Margo Edwards

Edwards has an undergraduate degree in computer science and geology from Washington University in St. Louis (1985).{{Cite web|date=2021-03-08|title=Women in STEM Skandalaris Startup Webinar - WashU Fuse|url=https://fuse.wustl.edu/women-in-stem-skandalaris-startup-webinar/|access-date=2021-10-14|website=FUSE|language=en-US}}{{Better source needed|date=October 2021}} She then received her Ph.D. from Columbia University where she mapped the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise.{{Cite thesis|title=The morphotectonic fabric of the East Pacific Rise: implications for fault generation and crustal accretion|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/morphotectonic-fabric-of-the-east-pacific-rise-implications-for-fault-generation-and-crustal-accretion/oclc/%7B%7B%7B29280276%7D%7D%7D|date=1992|language=English|first=Margo Helen|last=Edwards}} She joined UH in 1991 as a senior research scientist,{{Cite web|last=Altonn|first=Helen|date=March 2, 2008|title=Family is founded on cartography {{!}} starbulletin.com {{!}} News {{!}} /2008/03/02/|url=http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/03/02/news/story09.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-13|website=archives.starbulletin.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180202182754/http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/03/02/news/story09.html|archive-date=2018-02-02}} served as the director of Hawai'i Mapping Research Group{{Cite web|date=October 28, 2009|title=Mānoa: Lecture explores munitions dumped near Hawaii {{!}} University of Hawaii News|url=https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=3215|access-date=2021-10-13|website=manoa.hawaii.edu}} and the director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Island, Maritime and Extreme Environment Security (CIMES).{{Cite web|title=Margo H. Edwards|url=https://www.higp.hawaii.edu/index.php/people/margo-h-edwards/|access-date=2021-10-13|website=HIGP|language=en-US}} As of 2021, she is the director of the Applied Research Laboratory.

Edwards served as the chair of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)'s Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee from 2004 until 2007.{{Cite web|date=August 2021|title=Dr. Margo Edwards|url=https://arl.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GMF-Bio-Edwards.pdf}}

Edwards' research centers on the development of high resolution maps, and analysis of photographic and acoustic data. In 1988, while she was at Washington University, Edwards assembled the ETOPO5 5-minute map of land and seafloor elevations.{{Cite web|last=National Geophysical Data Center|title=ETOPO5 Data and Documentation {{!}} ngdc.noaa.gov.|url=https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/etopo-global-relief-model|access-date=2021-10-14|website=www.ngdc.noaa.gov|date=19 August 2020 |language=EN-US}}{{Cite web|date=2017-02-23|title=Information about the ETOPO5 t-minute gridded elevation data|url=https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/TOPO/ETOPO5/ETOPO5.txt|url-status=live|access-date=2021-10-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223212742/https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/relief/ETOPO5/TOPO/ETOPO5/ETOPO5.txt|archive-date=2017-02-23}} During her graduate work she developed maps of the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean,{{Cite news|last=Weber|first=Bruce|date=1988-04-03|title=WORKS IN PROGRESS; The Tip of the Volcano|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/03/magazine/works-in-progress-the-tip-of-the-volcano.html|access-date=2021-10-14|issn=0362-4331}} including the seafloor at the East Pacific Rise, where she detailed its shape and the locations of hydrothermal vents.{{Cite journal|last1=Haymon|first1=Rachel M.|last2=Fornari|first2=Daniel J.|last3=Edwards|first3=Margo H.|last4=Carbotte|first4=Suzanne|last5=Wright|first5=Dawn|last6=Macdonald|first6=Ken C.|date=1991-06-01|title=Hydrothermal vent distribution along the East Pacific Rise crest (9°09′–54′N) and its relationship to magmatic and tectonic processes on fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X%2891%2990226-8|journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters|language=en|volume=104|issue=2|pages=513–534|doi=10.1016/0012-821X(91)90226-8|bibcode=1991E&PSL.104..513H|s2cid=128614514 |issn=0012-821X}} Edwards led the Hawai'i Mapping Research Group which developed the HAWAII MR1, an instrument that allows high resolution imaging of the seafloor,{{Cite journal|last1=Edwards|first1=M.|last2=Shor|first2=A.|last3=Rognstad|first3=M.|last4=Zisk|first4=S.|last5=Simpson|first5=M.|last6=Erickson|first6=J.|date=1992|title=HAWAII MR1: a new tool for mapping and analyzing seaflor terrain|url=http://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetail&idt=4024456|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Davis|first1=R.|last2=Zisk|first2=S.|last3=Simpson|first3=M.|last4=Edwards|first4=M.|last5=Shor|first5=A.|last6=Halter|first6=E.|title=Proceedings of OCEANS '93 |chapter=Hawaii Mapping Research Group bathymetric and sidescan data processing |date=1993|chapter-url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/326137|pages=II449–II453 vol.2|doi=10.1109/OCEANS.1993.326137|isbn=0-7803-1385-2|s2cid=111351986}} and was used to map the features of the Sirena Deep, one of the deepest places in the worlds' ocean.{{Cite journal|last1=Fryer|first1=Patricia|last2=Becker|first2=Nathan|last3=Appelgate|first3=Bruce|last4=Martinez|first4=Fernando|last5=Edwards|first5=Margo|last6=Fryer|first6=Gerard|date=2003-06-30|title=Why is the Challenger Deep so deep?|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X03002024|journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters|language=en|volume=211|issue=3|pages=259–269|doi=10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00202-4|bibcode=2003E&PSL.211..259F|issn=0012-821X|url-access=subscription}}

Edwards was the first woman to live aboard a Navy nuclear submarine during under-ice operations. When Edwards received funding to look at the Arctic, women were not permitted to live aboard a submarine while it was at sea. In her 2020 book, Rita Colwell, the former head of the United States' National Science Foundation, described her conversation with Admiral Paul Gaffney about the Navy's concerns but Colwell prevailed.{{cite book|last1=Colwell|first1=Rita R.|title=A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science|date=2020|isbn=9781797108902|location=New York|pages=111–113}} In 1999, during the SCICEX project, Edwards spent thirteen days on the USS Hawkbill where she found evidence of climate change in the Arctic, including thinning sea ice,{{Cite journal|last1=Polyak|first1=Leonid|last2=Edwards|first2=Margo H.|last3=Coakley|first3=Bernard J.|last4=Jakobsson|first4=Martin|date=2001|title=Ice shelves in the Pleistocene Arctic Ocean inferred from glaciogenic deep-sea bedforms|url=http://www.nature.com/articles/35068536|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=410|issue=6827|pages=453–457|doi=10.1038/35068536|pmid=11260709|bibcode=2001Natur.410..453P|s2cid=4429415|issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription}} volcanoes on the seafloor,{{Cite journal|last1=Cochran|first1=James R.|last2=Kurras|first2=Gregory J.|last3=Edwards|first3=Margo H.|last4=Coakley|first4=Bernard J.|date=2003|title=The Gakkel Ridge: Bathymetry, gravity anomalies, and crustal accretion at extremely slow spreading rates|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth|language=en|volume=108|issue=B2|page=2116|doi=10.1029/2002JB001830|bibcode=2003JGRB..108.2116C|s2cid=129039240 |issn=2156-2202|doi-access=free}} and warm water moving into the Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean. This research has also expanded the maps of the Arctic's seafloor which allows investigations into understanding of physical processes in the region.{{Cite journal|last1=Jakobsson|first1=Martin|last2=Macnab|first2=Ron|last3=Mayer|first3=Larry|last4=Anderson|first4=Robert|last5=Edwards|first5=Margo|last6=Hatzky|first6=Jörn|last7=Schenke|first7=Hans Werner|last8=Johnson|first8=Paul|date=2008|title=An improved bathymetric portrayal of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modeling and geological, geophysical and oceanographic analyses|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2008GL033520|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|language=en|volume=35|issue=7|doi=10.1029/2008GL033520|bibcode=2008GeoRL..35.7602J|s2cid=55742003 |issn=1944-8007}}{{Cite journal|last1=Jakobsson|first1=Martin|last2=Mayer|first2=Larry|last3=Coakley|first3=Bernard|last4=Dowdeswell|first4=Julian A.|last5=Forbes|first5=Steve|last6=Fridman|first6=Boris|last7=Hodnesdal|first7=Hanne|last8=Noormets|first8=Riko|last9=Pedersen|first9=Richard|last10=Rebesco|first10=Michele|last11=Schenke|first11=Hans Werner|date=2012|title=The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|language=en|volume=39|issue=12|doi=10.1029/2012GL052219|bibcode=2012GeoRL..3912609J|hdl=2445/175672 |s2cid=55994905 |issn=1944-8007|doi-access=free|hdl-access=free}}

Her work in Hawaii uses time-lapse photographs{{Cite journal|last1=Edwards|first1=Margo H.|last2=Fornari|first2=Daniel J.|last3=Rognstad|first3=Mark R.|last4=Kelley|first4=Christopher D.|last5=Mah|first5=Christopher L.|last6=Davis|first6=Logan K.|last7=Flores|first7=Kyle R. M.|last8=Main|first8=Erin L.|last9=Bruso|first9=Natalie L.|date=2016-06-01|title=Time-lapse camera studies of sea-disposed chemical munitions in Hawaii|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064515000806|journal=Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography|series=Chemical Munitions Dumped at Sea|language=en|volume=128|pages=25–33|doi=10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.03.003|bibcode=2016DSRII.128...25E|issn=0967-0645|url-access=subscription}} of military munitions disposed at sea at the end of World War II.{{Cite journal|last1=Edwards|first1=Margo H|last2=Shjegstad|first2=Sonia M.|last3=Wilkens|first3=Roy|last4=King|first4=James C.|last5=Carton|first5=Geoff|last6=Bala|first6=Deserie|last7=Bingham|first7=Brian|last8=Bissonnette|first8=Martine C.|last9=Briggs|first9=Christian|last10=Bruso|first10=Natalie S.|last11=Camilli|first11=Rich|date=2016-06-01|title=The Hawaii Undersea Military Munitions Assessment|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064516300844|journal=Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography|series=Chemical Munitions Dumped at Sea|language=en|volume=128|pages=4–13|doi=10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.04.011|bibcode=2016DSRII.128....4E|issn=0967-0645|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite journal|last1=Edwards|first1=Margo H.|last2=Wilkens|first2=Roy|last3=Kelley|first3=Chris|last4=DeCarlo|first4=Eric|last5=MacDonald|first5=Kathryn|last6=Shjegstad|first6=Sonia|last7=Woerkom|first7=Michael Van|last8=Payne|first8=Zachary|last9=Dupra|first9=Vilma|last10=Rosete|first10=Matthew|last11=Akiba|first11=Miya|date=2012-01-01|title=Methodologies for Surveying and Assessing Deep-Water Munitions Disposal Sites|journal=Marine Technology Society Journal|volume=46|issue=1|pages=51–62|doi=10.4031/MTSJ.46.1.6|doi-access=free}} Edwards' research informed the discussion on the potential destruction of chemical weapons as she noted the munitions should remain on the seafloor.{{Cite news|last=The Associated Press|first=|date=2010-07-31|title=Old Weapons Off Hawaii Should Stay Put, Army Says|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/us/01weapons.html|access-date=2021-10-14|issn=0362-4331}} Edward's group at the University of Hawaii obtained top secret clearance for Navy Research in 2018 because of their projects on data analysis, drone research, waste disposal, renewable energy, and cybersecurity.{{Cite web|last=Lovell|first=Blaze|date=2018-12-28|title='Top Secret' Clearance Expected For UH Lab Doing Navy Research|url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/12/top-secret-clearance-expected-for-uh-lab-doing-navy-research/|access-date=2021-10-13|website=Honolulu Civil Beat|language=en}} At the same time, she opens her group to the public by running camps to train people on how to fly personal drones.{{Cite web|date=2018-04-10|title=University of Hawai'i hosts first-ever drone boot camp|url=https://www.auvsi.org/industry-news/university-hawaii-hosts-first-ever-drone-boot-camp|access-date=2021-10-13|website=Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=April 6, 2018|title=Dozens turn out for inaugural drone boot camp {{!}} University of Hawaiʻi System News|url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2018/04/06/inaugural-drone-boot-camp/|access-date=2021-10-13|language=en-US}}

• {{Cite journal|last1=Jakobsson|first1=Martin|last2=Macnab|first2=Ron|last3=Mayer|first3=Larry|last4=Anderson|first4=Robert|last5=Edwards|first5=Margo|last6=Hatzky|first6=Jörn|last7=Schenke|first7=Hans Werner|last8=Johnson|first8=Paul|date=2008|title=An improved bathymetric portrayal of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for ocean modeling and geological, geophysical and oceanographic analyses|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2008GL033520|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|language=en|volume=35|issue=7|doi=10.1029/2008GL033520|bibcode=2008GeoRL..35.7602J|s2cid=55742003 |issn=1944-8007}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Jakobsson|first1=Martin|last2=Mayer|first2=Larry|last3=Coakley|first3=Bernard|last4=Dowdeswell|first4=Julian A.|last5=Forbes|first5=Steve|last6=Fridman|first6=Boris|last7=Hodnesdal|first7=Hanne|last8=Noormets|first8=Riko|last9=Pedersen|first9=Richard|last10=Rebesco|first10=Michele|last11=Schenke|first11=Hans Werner|date=2012|title=The International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 3.0|journal=Geophysical Research Letters|language=en|volume=39|issue=12|doi=10.1029/2012GL052219|bibcode=2012GeoRL..3912609J|hdl=2445/175672 |s2cid=55994905 |issn=1944-8007|doi-access=free|hdl-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Cochran|first1=James R.|last2=Kurras|first2=Gregory J.|last3=Edwards|first3=Margo H.|last4=Coakley|first4=Bernard J.|date=2003|title=The Gakkel Ridge: Bathymetry, gravity anomalies, and crustal accretion at extremely slow spreading rates|journal=Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth|language=en|volume=108|issue=B2|page=2116|doi=10.1029/2002JB001830|bibcode=2003JGRB..108.2116C|s2cid=129039240 |issn=2156-2202|doi-access=free}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Haymon|first1=Rachel M.|author-link1=Rachel Haymon|last2=Fornari|first2=Daniel J.|last3=Edwards|first3=Margo H.|last4=Carbotte|first4=Suzanne|author-link4=Suzanne Carbotte|last5=Wright|first5=Dawn|author-link5=Dawn Wright|last6=Macdonald|first6=Ken C.|author-link6=Ken Macdonald|date=1991-06-01|title=Hydrothermal vent distribution along the East Pacific Rise crest (9°09′–54′N) and its relationship to magmatic and tectonic processes on fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X%2891%2990226-8|journal=Earth and Planetary Science Letters|language=en|volume=104|issue=2|pages=513–534|doi=10.1016/0012-821X(91)90226-8|bibcode=1991E&PSL.104..513H|s2cid=128614514 |issn=0012-821X}}

In 2007, Edwards received the Distinguished Public Service Award from Admiral Thad Allen when he was the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.{{Cite web|title=Mānoa: UH Manoa's Margo Edwards receives the U.S. Coast Guard Distinguished Public Service Award {{!}} University of Hawaii News|url=https://manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=1661|access-date=2021-10-13|website=manoa.hawaii.edu}} She was named Honolulu's scientist of the year in 2009 by the ARCS program (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists).{{Cite web|title=Honolulu Hosts Sea Shanties: Tales of Doing Science at Sea {{!}} Honolulu|url=https://honolulu.arcsfoundation.org/civicrm/event/info?id=1807&reset=1|access-date=2021-10-13|website=honolulu.arcsfoundation.org}}

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