# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nancy-marcus
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:42.516Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nancy-marcus"
name: "Nancy Marcus"
slug: "nancy-marcus"
description: "Nancy Helen Marcus was an American biologist and oceanographer. During her graduate studies, Marcus became known as an expert on copepod ecology and evolutionary biology. She began her career as a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where she studied copepod dormancy and its implications for marine aquaculture. She continued her field research as a professor of oceanography and later as the director of the Florida State University Marine Laboratory (FSU). During this time, Marcus was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as the president of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. As the president, she led efforts to increase education activities and increase the endowment fund."
tagline: "American biologist and college administrator"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Nancy_Marcus.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-05-17"
deathDate: "2018-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.5
  historical:           5.669942666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Nancy Marcus"
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    title: "نانسي ماركوس"
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    title: "نانسى ماركوس"
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    title: "نانسی مارکوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Marcus"
    title: "Nancy Marcus"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump