Women in Oceanography: Women of the Academy and the Sea

Authors

Suzanne O'Connell, Wesleyan UniversityFollow
Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraskaat LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-2005

Comments

Published in Oceanography, vol. 18, no. 1 (March 2005): 12-17, 20-24. Copyright 2005, the Oceanography Society. Used by permission. http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/issue_archive/18_1.html (Women of the Academy and the Sea)

Abstract

Women have played an active role in all areas of oceanography. Defining the number of women oceanographers is not an easy task because the discipline is so broad and the boundaries between subdisciplines are not always distinct.