User:Gavin.Maurer/Katherine Woodley Carman

= Katherine Woodley Carmen = Katherine Woodley Carmen was a micro paleontologist born in New York City in 1906. She then got herself involved in the petroleum industry and sadly died at the age of 102 in 2008.

Early life
Her interest in geology developed when visiting beaches in Lake Michigan, accompanied by her Father, garnering rocks from the pristine shores. Becoming more impassioned over her early youth, she attended Wellesley College in 1923. Attending all the geology courses available to her, she completed a bachelor of Geology degree four years later. She then went on to pursue her Ph.D. at M.I.T, resulting in the construction of her thesis; “The Shallow-Water Foraminifera '', and achieving her Ph.D. in paleontology. This achievement cemented her as the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at M.I.T. With her extensive education and training in vertebrate and micropaleontology, her field quickly expanded to the petroleum industry, spanning 40 years, primarily as a self-employed consulting geologist she was a part of the American association of Petroleum Geologists for 82 years until her retirement.