Tag: women
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Facial reconstruction shows powerful Bronze Age woman’s serene expression and huge earrings
Live Science has a story about some facial reconstruction performed on a Bronze Age woman’s skull. Researchers in Spain, discovered the remains of the woman in 2014. She was buried with lavish jewelry – including a diadem, beaded necklaces, silver-crafted rings, bracelets, spiral hairpieces and earplugs with spirals, as well as a silver-rimmed drinking pot…
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How Marie Tharp Changed Geology Forever
Forbes has a story about Marie Tharp and her contributions to geology. During the International Geophysical Year 1857, Marie Tharp noticed a series of valleys and ridges in the middle Atlantic Ocean. These “lines” are essentially the mark of the sea floor spreading at the tectonic plate boundary, although at the time, the concept of…
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Mary Anning: A hunt without a kill
Cosmos Magazine has a post about Mary Anning. Mary died on March 9th, 1847 at the age of 47. She made important contributions to paleontology back in the early 1800s. She was a very interesting person who found some of the first Ichthyosaurs, Plesiosaurs, and pterosaurs. There are a few biographies of her life (The…
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Letters From Gondwana: The Great Female Scientists of the Victorian Era
The blog Letters From Gondwana has a great post about the great female scientists of the Victorian Era. Of course, there’s Mary Anning and the Philpot sisters. Also included are Barbara Hastings, Etheldred Bennet, Mary Buckland née Morland, Charlotte Murchinson, Elizabeth Cobbold, Mary Buckland née Morland, Charlotte Murchinson, Mary Sommerville, Jane Marcet, Delvalle Lowry, and…
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Do You Know Any Remarkable Creatures?
Interesting interview by Diane Rehm of Tracy Chevalier the author of the new book, “Remarkable Creatures“. It is a book about the life and times of Mary Anning, a world-renowned 19th-century paleontologist. And interview of the same author by Leonard Lopate too. Later in the January, Leonard Lopate interviewed a renowned paleontologist Peter Ward, who…
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Calling on Women Geoscientists
Via ScienceBlogs Over the past several years, the geoscience blogosphere has blossomed so much that this fall, the Geological Society of America (GSA) will be convening a Pardee Keynote Symposium called “Google Earth to Geoblogs: Digital Innovations in the Geosciences.” Kim Hannula started wondering how blogs serve women geoscientists. Kim recruited the rest of us…
