Susan Jane Carter

Susie Carter was born and grew up in Falmouth, MA, to parents who met at WHOI.  She graduated from Harvard in 1990 in Geological Sciences. She and Ann have been friends since being housemates in graduate school, and she’s been Ann’s lab manager since 2003. 

After spending her first 40 years as a sailor, she took up whitewater sports and is now an avid rafter and kayaker.  In pre-pandemic days, she played a lot of ball hockey.  She has a husband who teaches at MIT, two children in college, a dog and a cat.