Google Doodle Celebrates Marie Tharp, Who Mapped the Ocean Flooring

Google Doodle Celebrates Marie Tharp, Who Mapped the Ocean Flooring

Google’s homepage just lately featured a video about Lamont cartographer Marie Tharp.

On November 21, an interactive Google Doodle highlighted the pioneering work of Marie Tharp.

Beginning in 1948, Tharp labored on the Lamont Geological Observatory — now the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory on the Columbia Local weather College. There, she used sonar information to attract topographic maps of the ocean flooring.

Regardless of being a girl in a male-dominated area, Tharp managed to co-publish the primary world map of the ocean flooring, and helped to show the idea of continental drift  — an thought her colleague notoriously dismissed as “woman discuss,” however is now thought of scientific reality. In 1997, the Library of Congress named her one of many 4 best cartographers of the twentieth century.

Tharp retired in 1983 and died in 2006, however she stays an inspiration to numerous ladies scientists.

In a guide that was printed in 1999, Tharp mentioned, “Not too many individuals can say this about their lives: The entire world was unfold out earlier than me (or at the very least, the 70 % of it coated by oceans). I had a clean canvas to fill with extraordinary potentialities, an interesting jigsaw puzzle to piece collectively: mapping the world’s huge hidden seafloor. It was a once-in-a-lifetime — a once-in-the-history-of-the-world — alternative for anybody, however particularly for a girl within the Nineteen Forties. The character of the instances, the state of the science, and occasions massive and small, logical and illogical, mixed to make all of it occur.”

Be taught extra about Marie Tharp and her legacy by clicking via the Google Doodle, by studying our earlier protection, and by visiting our Marie Tharp web site.