Remarkable Women: Beaches and Oceans

Remarkable Women: Beaches and Oceans

Biographical picture books about adventurers, scientists and environmentalists 

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Ocean Speaks: How Marie Tharp revealed the Ocean's Biggest Secret  by Jess Keating

Published: June 30, 2020

As a young girl, Marie Tharp loved exploring the world with her father. As she grew up, she wanted to study science and become a scientist, which was a man's line of work. When WW2 began, many men left for war and Marie got her chance to study science. Soon, she was able to get a job working in a laboratory. 

Her greatest achievement was creating a map of the ocean floor and therein by, discovering the largest mountain range - which is underwater.

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Dare The Wind by Tracey Fern

 

Published: February 14, 2014

 

Eleanor "Ellen" Prentiss learned how to navigate ships at a very early age, at a point in time when most women were taught sewing and housekeeping. Her father was the Captain of a coastal trading schooner and would let her navigate his ships around the harbor in their Massachusetts hometown. 

 

As an adult, she married and along with her husband, made a living sailing trade routes. When the California Gold Rush struck, Ellen and her husband raced to deliver supplies to the men. Their ship, The Flying Cloud, set record times for their trips, all thanks to Ellen's navigation.

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Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist 

 

Published: July 7, 2020

When Mary Anning was 10 years old, she began joining her father on the rocky beaches near their home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, looking for fossils. Nearly a year later, she had discovered her first dinosaur skeleton - a 17 foot long ichthyosaur.  

 

Mary Anning found and sold these fossils for a living and gained a notable reputation for herself amongst the scientific community. Because of her poor station and gender, she did nor receive the recognition or credit she deserved for her research and findings. She was the first person to discover and ichthyosaur dinosaur and plesiosaurus.

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 Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch by Heidi Tyline King

 

Published: April 13, 2021

MaVynee loved to spend time at the beach her grandfather purchased in Jacksonville, Florida. At a time in American history when many things where segregated, this beach was bought with the purpose to be a beach open to everyone. It was names American Beach. 

Over time, the beach became dirty and littered with trash. MaVynee returned to the beach as an adult and set to work, making it the beautiful place she new it to have been. When builders chose American Beach as the perfect location to build condos, MaVynee fought to have the beach declared protected.

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 Shark Lady by Jess Keating

 Published: June 6, 2017

 When Eugenie Clark visited an aquarium one day, she was fascinated with the creatures and knew she wanted to work with fish -sharks to be exact. Her mother helped foster this passion by buying her a fish tank and Eugenie did all she could to educate herself about sharks and fish. She earned a degree in Zoology and went on many dives, where she encountered sharks. 

She was the first scientist in the world to prove that sharks can be trained.

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