Julia A. Gardner

Ecphora gardnerae

Julia Anna Gardner (born January 26, 1882 in Chamberlain , South Dakota , † November 15, 1960 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American paleontologist .

Life

Gardner studied geology and paleontology at Bryn Mawr College with a bachelor's degree in 1905 and a master's degree in 1907 and from Johns Hopkins University , where she received her doctorate in paleontology in 1911. At the time, she was studying Cretaceous mollusks in Maryland and her research was published by the Maryland Geological Survey, for which she worked part-time. During World War I she worked as a nurse in France and returned to the USA in 1920. She then worked for the United States Geological Survey , where she worked as a paleontologist, primarily dealing with the Tertiary of the Atlantic coastal region and the Gulf region from Maryland to Mexico, where she was in the 1930s and 1940s. She also worked with oil companies in the Texas Gulf region. During the Second World War she was a military geologist in Japan.

In 1952 she was the President of the Paleontological Society and in 1953 Vice President of the Geological Society of America . She received the US Department of the Interior's Distinguished Service Medal .

A fossil snail named after her, Ecphora gardnerae , became a state fossil for Maryland in 1994 . Many first descriptions come from her.

Fonts

• Mollusca of the tertiary formations of northeastern Mexico, Geological Society of America 1947
• The molluscan fauna of the Alum Bluff group of Florida, US Geological Survey Paper 142, 1926-1947
• The Midway Group of Texas, Texas University Bulletin 3301, 1935

literature

• Nelson Sayre: Memorial, Julia Ann Gardner, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 45, 1961

Web links

• Sherilyn Brandenstein, biography in the Handbook of Texas (English)