Trelane was surfing the web, and came across a website that was devoted to women oceanographies:
http://www.womenoceanographers.org
Wow, she thought, reading through the articles there, enraptured. One day I'm going to have a biography on this website!
Our goal was to design a Web site that can engage the public and school children in the day-to-day science of women marine scientists. Through this project, we hope to encourage young women to pursue careers in science and to remove the mystery that surrounds being a scientist. Over the course of a year we will highlight twelve women, underscoring the different career paths in science and the diversity of the women who choose science as a career.
The expertise of the women on our Web site covers many of the subdisciplines within marine science. The women have backgrounds in chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, mathematics, geology, or geophysics. They are at different stages in their careers and are following different career paths including research, teaching, research assistants, administration, or a combination of these at universities, research institutions, government laboratories, and companies across the country. While many of these women have earned doctorates, others have gone directly into marine science from a bachelors degree, working, for example, as programmers, graphic illustrators, and data analysts.
As the new millennium gets started we believe it is appropriate to step back and assess what women scientists across the country and across the world are accomplishing today, and how they are no longer considered ’unique’ but instead are an accepted and integral part of the scientific community.
This Web site is funded by the National Science Foundation through the Program Awards to Facilitate Geoscience Education. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution provided support through cost sharing on the funded grant.
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