women in science – Flight To Wonder

Repost: Guest Videos: Dinosaurs, Mammals, and Tilly Edinger

November 26, 2019 BJ Deming

Here is an edited 2018 post about a clever paleoneurologist! A “game-changing” Cretaceous mammal fossil was reported in May 2018. To understand why paleontologists are

Repost: Etheldred Benett – “Lady Geologist”

November 19, 2019 BJ Deming

Continuing with reposts (slightly revised) from 2014 on key geoscientists of the past! In the late 18th and early 19th century, men like James Hutton

Repost: Mary Anning: Fossils by the Sea Shore

November 12, 2019 BJ Deming

Here’s another Geoscientist of the Week post from 2014. This is a guest post by Charles Dickens, who was quite taken with the “she” who

Guest Video: Florence Bascom

May 19, 2018 BJ Deming

Although she was spent her life studying Earth’s surface, this woman has a crater on a Venus and an asteroid named after her, per Wikipedia!

American geomorphologist Marie Morisawa affected geoscience much like a little creek affects the meadow and hillside it’s flowing through–in a big way, but quietly, slowly, efficiently over the years, drop by drop, paper by paper, student by student.