1. Carlotta Joaquina Maury was a geologist, stratigrapher, paleontologist, and was one of the first women to work as a professional scientist in the oil and gas industry.
14 Facts About Carlotta Maury
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Carlotta Maury worked as a palaeontologist within an oil company; she was a petroleum geologist at Royal Dutch Shell.
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Carlotta Maury was one of those few women that pursued the sciences.
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Carlotta Joaquina Maury was born on January 6,1874, in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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Carlotta Maury received the Schulyer Fellowship and the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship while attending Cornell University.
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Carlotta Maury later attended Jardin des Plantes in Paris from 1899 to 1900 and Columbia University.
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Carlotta Maury went on to become a paleontologist assistant at Columbia University in 1904 and a lecturer in geology at Columbia College and Barnard College until 1912.
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From 1910 to 1911 Carlotta Maury had the opportunity to be a part of Arthur Clifford Veatch's geological expedition to Venezuela as a paleontologist during that time.
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Carlotta Maury's goal was to order the stratigraphic layers of the Miocene and Oligocene eras, which were composed of sedimentary rock with heavy fossil deposits.
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Carlotta Maury's work formed the foundation of the present day International Dominican Republic Project, which is a research effort that aims to dissect evolutionary change in the Caribbean from the Miocene era to the present day.
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In 1925, Carlotta Maury published "Fosseis Terciarios do Brasil com Descripcao de Novas Formas Cretaceas".
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Carlotta Maury had a talent for writing among her many other skills and accomplishments, she documented her expeditions in a very professional manner.
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Carlotta Maury was known by her colleagues for her energy and efficiency as she worked against the prejudice against women scientists.
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Carlotta Maury was a fellow of the American Geographical Society.