[Geoldept] the first woman professional geologist in the US

[Susan DeBari]

A pretty interesting overview of the career of Florence Bascom in the late 1800s/early 1900s. Can you
imagine having to sit “behind a screen” during classes so as not
to disrupt male students?

http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/7/7/pdf/i1052-5173-7-7-8.pdf

-Sue DeBari



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Susan DeBari, Ph.D.
Geology Department and Science Education Program, MS 9080
Western Washington University
Bellingham WA 98225

Phone:  360-650-3588
http://faculty.wwu.edu/~debari/web/susan.html



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