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
Tag: women in science
Repost: Etheldred Benett – “Lady Geologist”
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
Guest Video: Florence Bascom
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!
Marie Morisawa
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.
Irene Manton
This British evolutionary botanist may be the most famous woman you have never heard of. Even at the institution where she spent much of her
Guest Video: Portraits of Women Scientists
“Women in the field, getting their hands dirty…” Oh, I identify with that so much – it brings back my forestry training back in the
