How oceanography should be taught from inland schools was another major question. Among the theoretical challenges were questions about the place of oceanography in college curricula, especially whether oceanography was an advanced study appropriate only to upper-level students. The programs of The Marine Science Consortium presented challenges both theoretical and practical. Oostdam to design and implement a program suggested by that exploration Oostdam's background and personality defined the character of the resulting educational program. Initially, the Science Department Chair, Alex Henderson, directed the exploration of possible delivery systems for marine science. In a letter to Bascom, who wanted her students to get physical education credit for geology field work, Thomas demands that the women wear appropriate apparel for the outdoors.The Marine Science Consortium, founded in 1968 and now physically located in Wallops Island, Virginia, began with brainstorming sessions in the Science Department of Millersville State College in the early 1960s. Bascom emphasized field work for her students, a practice which often brought her into conflict with Bryn Mawr president M. President Gilman sent her a letter from Mount Desert, “You have won your honors, as you must have wished to win them, without any favoritism, - just as all other candidates among us have won their diplomas, by talents, patience, and exertion.”Īfter briefly working at Ohio State, she took a position at Bryn Mawr College, then a women’s college, and began building a program in geology. Newspapers around the region and nation carried word of Bascom’s graduation as the first woman to receive a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. But she also finally had the chance to get outside and conduct fieldwork, studying the rocks of the Piedmont region of Maryland and Pennsylvania, work for which she became best known. But Bascom persisted, successfully petitioning for admission with support from her Wisconsin professors.Īs was customary at the time, she was required to sit behind a screen in the corner of the classroom so as to not distract the male students. Gilman, who was also a Northeast Harbor summer resident, opposed the co-education of women.
The president of Johns Hopkins, Daniel C. After earning several degrees at the University of Wisconsin and selecting geology as her preferred course of study, Bascom applied to Johns Hopkins University. She was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Wisconsin. The youngest of five children, Bascom was encouraged by her father (a philosphy professor) and her mother (an activist in the suffrage movement) to pursue science. Acadia had long been a destination for geologists, but Florence Bascom was the first professional female geologist to survey Mount Desert Island, publishing “The Geology of Mount Desert Island” in 1919.
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