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Journal Article
Published: 01 February 2025
American Mineralogist (2025) 110 (2): 181–188.
... after people, the identities of whom are largely a reflection of the people that have historically been involved, in one way or another, in the geosciences and the mining industry. Of the 2738 people with minerals named for them, ∼6.1% are (interpreted to be) women. Nearly all minerals named for women...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 14 September 2024
DOI: 10.1130/2024.1223(02)
EISBN: 9780813782232
... and fulfillment in my career, and I do feel that I belong in the geologic community. I count myself fortunate to have made it through the leaky pipeline of academia, somehow not only surviving but flourishing as well. There were few women geoscience faculty in the early 1980s, and for most academic positions...
Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 14 September 2024
DOI: 10.1130/2024.1223(01)
EISBN: 9780813782232
... and adjusting machine in a workshop I still was deeply under the impression that because I was assigned female at birth, I had to be a woman. I had trouble understanding why I felt so weird attending Women in Science student group meetings. I figured it was because they were mostly biology students, so I...
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Theresa Secord
Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 14 September 2024
DOI: 10.1130/2024.1223(03)
EISBN: 9780813782232
... that it was bad luck for women to be underground. Thankfully, my advisor was always supportive and encouraging, treating me as a fully competent equal and expecting great things of me, at the same time. I was one of his first graduate students. SUMMERS WITH NORANDA EXPLORATION INC. AND FIELDWORK FOR MY M.S...
Book Chapter

Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 14 September 2024
DOI: 10.1130/2024.1223(07)
EISBN: 9780813782232
... ABSTRACT Underrepresentation is a significant issue in the geoscience profession, particularly in academia. At the time I was pursuing my Ph.D. degree in the geosciences, I was one of only a handful of black women doing so. I will recount events in my life that led me to geoscience, but also...
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 12 July 2024
DOI: 10.1144/SP543-2022-293
EISBN: 9781786206404
... of Oceanography. Many women of her era faced significant challenges as they attempted to break into an often-unwelcoming field, marine geology. The challenges were not unique to geology; women were not welcomed in many other disciplines, both scientific and non-scientific. In spite of the obstacles, few people...
Journal Article
Published: 01 May 2024
Earth Sciences History (2024) 43 (1): 140–152.
...Elisa Buforn ABSTRACT Inge Lehmann is the best-known European woman seismologist, but she is not an isolated case. The presence of women seismologists in Europe has a long tradition, with the earliest women researchers appearing at the beginning of the 20 th century in the United Kingdom, Denmark...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2023
Earth Sciences History (2023) 42 (1): 174–195.
... Clara Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg micropaleontology natural history collections curation Before the end of the nineteenth century, it was extremely difficult for women to find ways to be active in any form of science. This was due in part to the lack of education in the fields...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 2022
Earth Sciences History (2022) 41 (2): 386–409.
... of geology within the context of women’s participation in a culture of “polite science” ( Thompson 2012 , p. 343). This article builds upon these findings, engaging in the discussion about women’s participation in science, and expanding on the way in which other factors, such as place, education and social...
Series: Geological Society, London, Memoirs
Published: 21 October 2022
DOI: 10.1144/M58-2021-37
EISBN: 9781786205841
... of women have made important contributions to the discipline. The last four decades of the twentieth century saw many advances in the theory, techniques, foci and practice of geomorphology (see Wohl et al. 2017 for a summary). From a fairly unified position in 1965, where a single textbook...
Journal Article
Journal: Elements
Published: 01 June 2022
Elements (2022) 18 (3): 210–211.
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 24 February 2022
DOI: 10.1130/2021.1218(19)
EISBN: 9780813782188
..., restorations of fossil animals, models of Mongolian animals, and a series of color sketches for an unrealized four-story mural for a museum staircase. ELISABETH RUNGIUS FULDA—BRINGING PREHISTORIC FOSSIL VERTEBRATES FROM THE GOBI DESERT TO LIFE TABLE 1. WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PALEONTOLOGY...
Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 24 February 2022
DOI: 10.1130/2021.1218(21)
EISBN: 9780813782188
... of the twentieth century, more women began to create books as well as illustrate those of others. English-born Helen Riviere Haywood (1908–1995) was a keen amateur naturalist and anthropologist. Her children’s books on fossils were published from the 1950s to 1970s (e.g., Haywood, 1970) . According to Connelly...
Journal Article
Journal: Elements
Published: 01 June 2021
Elements (2021) 17 (3): 150–152.
...Olivier Pourret; Jennifer L. Middleton; Daniel E. Ibarra; Dasapta Erwin Irawan; Ashaki Rouff; Pallavi Anand; Aradhna Tripati; Amy J. V. Riches; Anthony Dosseto Historically (from 2005 to 2021), 19 principal editors (PEs) have served with Elements : among them, four were women (21%). In the past...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 84–101.
...Barbara A. R. Mohr ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century the role of women was very much restricted. In the geosciences, women were not able to study and thus even less able to publish. Here the work of one female writer is presented who, due to her upbringing in an intellectual family with close...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 202–243.
... paleontologists who made their debuts in the 1940s and 1950s were mostly female and were all graduated from the Department of Natural Sciences of Istanbul University. A great majority of these women were employed either in the universities or in the MTA. Figure 14. The foreign specialists on Carboniferous...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 10 November 2020
DOI: 10.1144/SP499-2019-73
EISBN: 9781786205353
... in the future. Project results When considering the gender of the project leaders, we do see a positive increase in female project leaders, from 0% women (this number might be inaccurate, it was not always possible to determine the gender of the project leaders in this time frame) in the 1980s to 19...
Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2019
DOI: 10.1144/SP480.6
EISBN: 9781786204240
... studies of both single and married women are explored looking at the influence and interaction they had with Archibald Geikie. They include Maria Ogilvie Gordon, Catherine Raisin, Annie Greenly, Gertrude Elles, Ethel Skeat and Ethel Wood. Geikie seems to have accepted most of the roles that women...
Journal Article
Journal: Geosphere
Published: 31 October 2018
Geosphere (2018) 14 (6): 2585–2593.
..., and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including many geoscience subdisciplines, show a persistent gender gap. PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education, and SuccesS (PROGRESS) is a theory-driven role modeling and mentoring program aimed at supporting undergraduate women interested in geoscience-related degree...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 October 2018
Earth Sciences History (2018) 37 (2): 444–449.
... to do for the next three years. (This offer was made by none other than Professor Robert L. Nichols, who had insisted some 15 or so years earlier that geological science was not for women! Ursula has made clear that over the succeeding years she had quite positive and friendly relations with Nichols...
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