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Carlotta Joaquina Maury -

Anomalies (Pioneering  Women In Petroleum Geology: 1917-2017)

Revised Edition 2018

Author: Robbie Rice Gries

Career


 * One of the first women to peak an interest for oil and gas.
 * She began her work in 1906 and after teaching for a few years at Cornell she started to work alongside her professor (G.D. Harris) at Cornell University.
 * Carlotta helped Harris with sorting out the stratigraphy of salt deposits in Louisiana.
 * From 1909-1911 she worked in Venezuela as a paleontologist for the Veatch Expedition.
 * From 1910-11 when she was living in Venezuela, she became the first female paleontologist/stratigrapher to be hired to consult for the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company - she remained a consultant for 20 years
 * At the same time, she worked with the Geological and Mineral Survey of Brazil
 * Later in 1912-1915, she stayed in South Africa where she taught and published a paper on about a potential salt structure north of Cape Town.
 * In 1916, she led an expedition to the Dominican Republic and soon after published her work on stratigraphy and fauna.
 * Also following her research, she mapped out the strata and faunas of Puerto Rico


 * Most of her work after 1923 was completed inside a private lab in her apartment in Yonkers, New York. Since she was financially independent she was able to hire other specialists on the work she wasn’t as confident in.

Early Life


 * Born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
 * Her Grandfather (Daniel Gardner) was the Emperor of Brazil’s physician
 * Carlotta attended Radcliffe College, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris and the completed her geology PhD at Cornell in 1902
 * Her sister, Antonia Coetana de Paiva Maury become an astronomer and worked as a scientist and a mathematician in the Harvard Observatory.
 * Both her and her sister (Antonia) were nieces of Henry and Margaret Draper, who privately funded the Harvard Observatory.

Maury had another sister, Sarah Mytton Maury who died in infancy. Her brother, John William Draper was a well known New York surgeon who died in 1931.

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Maury was highly fascinated in learning and funded many expeditions using family money to areas that were not widely accepting of the new scientific ideas that were being brought forward.

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http://www.geosociety.org/documents/gsa/memorials/proceedings_1938/Maury-CJ.pdf


 * She was born on January 6, 1874
 * Her parents: Reverend Mytton Maury, D.D and Virginia Draper Maury
 * Carlotta had a second sister (Sarah Mytton Maury) who died in infancy
 * Her brother (Dr. John William Draper) born on August 21, 1871 was a well known New York surgeon. He died in 1931

Death


 * On January 3, 1938, Carlotta died at her home in Yonkers New York.
 * She was buried at Cold Springs, New York on January 6 - her 64th birthday.

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She was educated at Radcliffe College from 1891 to 1894. Influenced by Elizabeth Agassiz, co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College, Maury attended Cornell University, where she obtained a PhD in 1902, making her one of the first women to receive her PhD in paleontology.