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    1. Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology

      • Date: March 14, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Field Work at Yellowstone

      • Date: July 2, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Who is the man at right, standing in Yellowstone National Park with Dutch geologist Henrik Albertus Brouwer?

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    5. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

      100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

      • Date: January 6, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

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    7. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

      Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

      • Date: May 5, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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    9. A person holds a fossil above an open cabinet drawer.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Selina R. Cole

      • Date: June 30, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    11. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

      Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

      • Date: October 28, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    13. China Ligantissima?, Mollusk Illustration, August 2, 1866

      William H. Dall: He had Malacology Down to an Art

      • Date: August 16, 2012
      • Description: Explorer, Biologist, and former Smithsonian employee, William Healey Dall, also had artistic talent.

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    15. Documenting a Geologist's Adventures

      • Date: December 11, 2012
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.

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    17. A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

      So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

      • Date: July 16, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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    19. Geologist Sharon Purdy, Center for Earth and Planetary Sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, investigates the geology and geomorphology of landforms on Mars that were formed and (or) modified by surface water. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Sharon Purdy

      • Date: September 30, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Geologist Sharon Purdy, Center for Earch and Planetary Sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, investigates the geology and geomorphology of landforms on Mars that were formed and (or) modified by surface water. #Groundbreaker

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    21. Dr. Jennifer Whitten, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies of the National Air & Space Museum, studies radar data to understand the surface geology of Venus, Mars, and the Moon. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Jennifer Whitten

      • Date: July 8, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Jennifer Whitten, postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies of the National Air & Space Museum, studies radar data to understand the surface geology of Venus, Mars, and the Moon. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Phyllis Rudstrom Brenner

      • Date: January 19, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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