Profile

Margaret Mooney

Director of Education and Public Outreach

Bio

Margaret Mooney is the Education and Public Outreach lead at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological and Satellite Studies (CIMSS).

As a former National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist, Margaret has ample experience working with formal and informal audiences, leveraging early career experience with a degree in public policy to promote weather and climate education as avenues towards stewardship and sustainability.

Margaret is active in several education communities, including NOAA Climate Stewards, NASA Initiatives in Climate Education, the GOES-R Education Proving Ground, the UW Science Alliance, the Earth Science Information Partners (EISP) where she co-chairs the climate education working group, and the Wisconsin Initiative for Climate Change Impacts (WICCI) outreach roundtable.