Winifred gold ring
Winifred Goldring (born February 1, 1888 in Kenwood, Albany , † January 30, 1971 in Albany, New York) was an American paleontologist , paleobotanist and the first woman in the United States to become a state palaeontologist.
Life
Goldring was the daughter of a gardener (who came from England where he was an orchid gardener at Kew Gardens) and graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1909 and a master's degree in 1912. She was then an instructor in geology at Wellesley College and also at the Boston College of Teachers. In 1913 she studied with Amadeus Grabau at Columbia University. In 1914 she became an employee at the New York State Museum in Albany. In 1915 she became an assistant paleontologist and began studying fossil Devonian sea lilies from New York State. In 1921 she also took courses in paleobotany at Johns Hopkins University with Edward W. Berryand was commissioned by Gilboa to work on the petrified forest of seed ferns from the Devonian Mountains , which was discovered during dam construction work in the early 1920s. She also described the Cambrian stromatolites in the Petrified Sea Garden near Saratoga Springs, New York (1924).
In 1920 she became an Associate Paleontologist at the Museum, was a paleobotanist from 1925 to 1928, then again an Associate Paleontologist, 1932 Assistant State Paleontologist and 1939 State Paleontologist of New York.
She first described Eospermatopteris (see Pseudosporochnales ).
In 1949 she was President of the Paleontological Society (as the first woman) and in 1950 Vice President of the Geological Society of America .
Fonts
- The Devonian Crinoids of the State of New York, New York State Museum Memoir 16, 1923
- The Oldest Known Petrified Forest (Gilboa. New York), Smithsonian Institution. Annual Report for 1928, Washington 1929, pp. 315-341
- Handbook of Paleontology for Beginners and Amateurs, Volume 1: The Fossils, Albany 1929, 2nd edition 1950
- Algal Barrier Reefs in the lower Ozarkian of New York, New York State Museum 315, 1938, pp. 5-75
- Geology of the Berne Quadrangle, New York State Museum Bulletin 303, 1935
- Geology of the Coxsackie Quadrangle, New York State Museum Bulletin, 332, 1943
literature
- Sally Kohlsted, article Winifred Goldring in Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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| SURNAME | Gold ring, Winifred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kenwood (Albany) |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1971 |
| Place of death | Albany (New York) |