Olivia Mason

Olivia Mason is a professor in the FSU Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science. She leads the Mason Laboratory, researching how microbes react to disruptions in the marine environment, including oil spills and areas with decreasing oxygen concentrations known as oxygen minimum zones, or OMZs. Since 2023, Mason has also served as the director of FSU's Women in Math, Science and Engineering academic-living learning community, WIMSE.