Carrie McDougall

Carrie McDougall, PhD, (she/her) is the acting director of the Center for Education, Engagement and Evaluation (CEEE) and senior associate scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. A recognized national leader in science and environmental education, McDougall worked across federal agencies and expanded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) education impact globally and nationally during her extensive career as a senior program manager in NOAA's Office of Education. McDougall co-led the Environmental Literacy program, which provided $95M in grants to 163 projects across the U.S. and stimulated a new field, community resilience education. She also led the Science On a Sphere program, demonstrating its power as a data visualization education platform and building a global network of users that serve 60 million people a year. In addition to serving as CEEE acting director, she leads a large-scale project to modernize and expand the user and contribution base of the Science On a Sphere Data Catalog, which involves experimenting with Artificial Intelligence to automate workflows and create natural-language search capability. McDougall is a marine scientist by training with a doctoral degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.