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= Ellen Posey Bitgood = Ellen Posey Bitgood (NA-1982) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

Early Life/Background Information
Posey’s family moved to the United States when her father was employed as Superintendent for the Lone Star Gas Company in Petrolia, TX. Ellen Posey's father was a tool driller, with whom Ellen was able to grow up around the oil business. This then made Ellen very comfortable around the oil rigs and becoming acquaintances with workers on the oil rigs. This then made her comfortable with the work she would later encounter. It was probably this which made this graduate of the University of Oklahoma special, although she must have also impressed the men by being better than everybody else, be it geologically or physically. Posey is an example of a “winner” in geology and not a “loser” as women in geology often faced adversities: This can be seen where these problems have actively been used as arguments against the employment of women geologists out of good-intentioned paternalistic concern. This becomes a discriminating strategy which is possibly the most difficult to reject because many would-be employers or colleagues of women geologists are unaware of their discriminating attitude: ‘No, we cannot give the job to this woman. She is too young and tender, the strain of the fieldwork would be too much for her'. She wouldn’t like the rough treatment by the workers on the building site. Even through all of the adversities Ellen Posey fought she became a well-known geologist and was said to be one of the best.

Education
Ellen Posey is a graduate from the University of Oklahoma. Where she received her masters degree in paleontology.

Geological Career
Ellen Posey taught geology at the University of Oklahoma. She was also appointed president of the North Texas Geology Society in 1954 and stayed president for one year finishing her term in 1955.[1] She was a big believer in women's rights in geology and did a lot to help women in geology. The examples of ‘winners’ and not ‘losers’ are remembered, this is something that Ellen Posey would remind all female geologists, to help them remember their goals and push to be a winner in the field.

After spending many years teaching geology at the Universty of Oklahoma, and helping a group of anthropologists get a bunch of artifacts handed over to the University of Oklahoma. She decided to follow in her fathers' footsteps and began working at Cities Service Oil Company, but ended up losing that job when she married Fred Bitgood in 1937.

Publications
Ellen Posey wrote The Hunton of Kansas, it was publicized by M.S. thesis, Department of Geology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, and it was released in 1932.