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- Title
Winnie McGlamery (1887-1977): State Paleontologist of Alabama.
- Authors
RINDSBERG, ANDREW K.
- Abstract
During her three decades with the Geological Survey of Alabama from 1931 to 1961, Winnie McGlamery (1887-1977) was a key figure in Alabama paleontology and oil and gas exploration. She was a diminutive but feisty woman who arguably did more for the discovery of oil and gas fields than any other state employee during that time, for she logged the cores and cuttings of nearly every permitted well for the Survey's public files. McGlamery was trained in paleontology at the Johns Hopkins University at a time when few women scientists worked in the field, though microscope work was tolerated. "Miss Winnie" spent much of her career studying Foraminifera, especially after the first successful Alabama oil fields were brought in (notably, the Gilbertown field in 1944 and the Citronelle field in 1955). She also gained extensive field experience, particularly with Coastal Plain mollusks, and was active in local scientific societies. Her advice on fossils and localities was sought by many researchers. Although McGlamery published relatively little, she had a great influence on Alabama paleontology and biostratigraphy in her long association with the Geological Survey of Alabama.
- Subjects
ALABAMA; MCGLAMERY, Winnie; WOMEN scientists; NATURAL history; PALEONTOLOGY; JOHNS Hopkins University
- Publication
Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, 2013, Vol 31, Issue 2, p97
- ISSN
0196-1039
- Publication type
Article