NSF selects Alexandra Isern as assistant director for geosciences
NSF has selected Alexandra Isern to be the next assistant director of its Directorate for Geosciences, or GEO. She has spent the last 20 years at NSF serving in various roles within three divisions of the directorate, including leading the Surface Earth Processes and Antarctic Sciences Sections and serving a two-year stint with the National Science Board.
Isern had been serving as acting assistant director since June. Prior to that appointment, she served as the deputy assistant director for geosciences and as section head of the directorate's Antarctic Sciences Section, where she led the section in formulating and implementing research objectives and managed administrative, fiscal and personnel issues.