Making a Mark on the Ocean Floor

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Until very recently oceanography was a field dominated by men. A seafaring career, oceanography was still influenced by the superstitions of ship life; a woman on board was considered to bring bad luck. It may come as a surprise then, that one of the most influential oceanographic cartographers (mapmakers) of the 20th century was a woman, and she achieved such status without even stepping foot on a boat.

Marie Tharp is credited with producing one of the world’s first comprehensive maps of the ocean floor. She and research partner Bruce Heezen transformed a once barren and flat...

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National Museum of Natural History

Published Date

Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:41:33 -0400

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National Museum of Natural History

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Smithsonian staff publications

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The Ocean Blog

Topic

Natural History

Ocean

Sea Life

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