|
Staff Directory
Holly
K.
Given
| Email:
hgiven@nsf.gov
|
|
| Phone:
(703) 292-5038
|
|
| Fax:
(703) 292-9048
|
|
| Room:
875 S
|
|
| Organization:
DGE
|
|
| Title:
Program Officer
|
|
|
Program Responsibilities:
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program
(IGERT)
Biography:
Holly Given joined NSF as a Program Director with the Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program in December 2008. Educated in geophysics, Dr. Given has spent most of her career managing large programs and facilities for research and monitoring applications in a variety of organizational settings. From 2004-2008, Dr. Given was a Program Director at Consortium for Ocean Leadership (formerly Joint Oceanographic Institutions), a not-for-profit Washington D.C.-based consortium that manages programs on behalf of the NSF and other entities. Dr. Given was principal investigator on cooperative agreements for planning and development of the proposed Ocean Observatories Initiative, where she successfully took the project through design reviews required for NSF Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction projects, and for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, an international program that retrieves ocean-bottom rocks and sediments to study the history of the Earth, where she funded the participation of U.S. researchers and doctoral students in research expeditions and other program activities. From 1997-2001, Dr. Given was a technical officer at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria, an international organization holding a relationship agreement with the United Nations, where she established procedures to build and certify global stations used to monitor compliance with the Treaty in accordance with work programs established by the States Signatories. She returned to the U.S. in 2002 as a program manager for SAIC, a Fortune 500 science and technology company. From 1987-1997, Dr. Given was associated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography, beginning as a post-doc developing seismic stations in the Soviet Union, and finishing as the Executive Director of the Scripps IDA network, an element of the Global Seismographic Network, founded with contributions from philanthropists Cecil and Ida Green. During these years Dr. Given accumulated significant field experience in Eurasia, Africa, Scandinavia, and many Pacific and Atlantic island locations. Dr. Given received the Ph.D. in 1986 from the California Institute of Technology, where she worked with Professor Hiroo Kanamori on methods to characterize seismic sources. A native of Illinois, she received the B.S. in Physics from the College of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was also a National Merit Scholar, a summer intern at Fermilab, and an accelerator operator for medium-energy electron beams at the U of I Nuclear Physics Laboratory.
|
