Gender Minorities in Oceanography

This collection of resources was pulled together for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University's Gender Minorities in Science Panel (2024)

Profiles of Gender Minorities in Oceanography

• Career profiles - marine scientists who have pursued successful and fulfilling careers outside of academia (The Oceanography Society)

• Coastal job profiles (Hakai Magazine)

• Women in Ocean Careers (NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries)

• Women making history in coastal and marine science (USGS, 2022)

• Autobiographical Sketches of Women in Oceanography (Oceanography, 2015)

• Making Waves: Notable Women in Ocean Science (NOAA) - also see NOAA Research - Meet Our People

• Extraordinary Women (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Women's Committee)

Organizations

• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Geosciences (AAPIiG)

• Black in Marine Science (BIMS)

• Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science (BWEEMS)

• Ocean Womxn

• Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)

• Society for Women in Marine Science (SWMS)

• Women's Aquatic Network (WAN)

• Women in Coastal Geoscience and Engineering 

• Women in Ocean Science (WOS)

• Women Offshore and their Women Offshore Podcast

Articles

• Gender Equality for Ocean Sustainability (UNESCO, 2024)

• Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men (Science, 2023)

• Women in Oceanography Still Navigate Rough Seas (EOS, 2019)

• Eight ways to support women in science (EOS, 2019)

Journal Articles

• Black Women in Ocean Science: Barriers to Advancement and Strategies to Move Forward (Oceanography, 2023)

• Gender Equity in Oceanography (Annual Review of Marine Science, 2023)

• Social Identities, Intersectionality, and the Experiences of Women and Women of Color in Marine, Aquatic, and Fisheries Science Professions [only abstract is open access] (Fisheries Magazine, 2022)

• Changing the Culture of Coastal, Ocean, and Marine Sciences: Strategies for Individual and Collective Actions (Oceanography, 2021)

• Persistent gender bias in marine science and conservation calls for action to achieve equity (Biological Conservation, 2021)

• Un-gendering the ocean: Why women matter in ocean governance for sustainability (Marine Policy, 2018)

• Steps to improve gender diversity in coastal geoscience and engineering (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2018)

• Oceanography and Women: Early Challenges (Oceanography, 2015)

• SUPPLEMENT • Women in Oceanography: A Decade Later (Oceanography, 2014)

• Special Issue: Women in Oceanography (Oceanography, 2005)

Contact

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out and contact me. Dr. Laura Guertin (guertin@psu.edu).