Marie Tharp Maps

08/01/2024

🎂 Happy birthday, Marie Tharp!

🗺️ A pioneering geologist and cartographer, Tharp created some of the world's first maps of the ocean floor and has a legacy that continues to reverberate across ocean sciences today. Her influence is felt in classrooms, labs, and aboard research vessels like the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. 🚢

Learn more: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/happy-birthday-marie-tharp

📷: Marie Tharp in 2001. Tharp's contributions to seafloor mapping helped reveal Earth's submarine landscape in unprecedented detail, and her work ultimately played an essential role in the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics. Courtesy of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp.

04/29/2024

04/23/2024

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04/23/2024

Right after a magnitude-4.8 earthquake shook the New York metropolitan area and beyond, a team of geologists from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory including Folarin Kolawole, Zachary Foster-Baril, and Sean Kinney headed to the field to better understand exactly what had just happened, combing the New Jersey countryside for signs of earthquakes past and present.

Learn more: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/new-jerseys-ancient-rocks-hunting-clues-earthquake-2024

📷: Structural geologist Folarin Kolawole and postdoc Zachary Foster-Baril of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory prepare to analyze a rock outcrop next to the Lake Solitude Dam in High Bridge, NJ near the epicenter of the magnitude-4.8 earthquake that took place the previous week on April 5, 2024. Credit: Kevin Krajick

03/07/2024

Celebrate with the Smithsonian! Our free “Picturing Women Inventors” poster exhibit developed with our friends at The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center celebrates the innovations of American women! You can download your free copy here: s.si.edu/3wvHCpy

01/20/2024

I had the pleasure of visiting the aquarium in Atlanta Georgia recently. Highly recommend! It’s the largest aquarium in the United States. What a beautiful, educational and exciting experience!

06/08/2023

HEALTHY OCEANS = HEALTHY PLANET 🌊🌏

05/05/2022

This is so exciting!! Follow their page as they explore and fill in the blanks on the ocean floor!

06/08/2021

https://youtu.be/fHi5CtVxHk4
Happy World Oceans Day!! 🌊🐠🐟

In honor of World Oceans Day, Lamont scientists share the nature of their research to understand and conserve our oceans—vital to life on Earth—and connect o...

01/18/2021

Let this woman never be forgotten! Her contributions to this world, her relentless efforts to be where women weren’t welcome and her genuine curiousity gave the world answers to questions that many weren’t even asking!! A scientific powerhouse!
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/marie-tharp-maps-plate-tectonics-seafloor-cartography?fbclid=IwAR3o4f8eWpCPVhtljVJHCUZ0I5egoEc0sMQbTmPLPoXvxxnanJtEp_nNXp8

In part because of her gender, Tharp was the right person in the right place at the right time to make the first detailed maps of the ocean’s bottom.

12/22/2020

Just a little female scientist superhero!

The 30th of July 2020 marked the centenary of the birth of a woman who was central to the development of the field of Earth sciences: Marie Tharp, a pioneer of ocean floor cartography and marine geology. Her work was crucial in reintroducing a mobilist (drift) vision of Earth and for the development...

08/10/2020

We still know so little about our oceans

Researchers are setting out to explore one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries: A type of sinkhole in the ocean floor known as a “blue hole.” Blue holes are huge caverns beneath the…