Marie Tharp Maps

🎂 Happy birthday, Marie Tharp!

🗺️ A pioneering geologist and cartographer, Tharp created some of the world's first maps of the ocean floor and has a legacy that continues to reverberate across ocean sciences today. Her influence is felt in classrooms, labs, and aboard research vessels like the R/V Marcus G. Langseth. 🚢

Learn more: https://lamont.columbia.edu/news/happy-birthday-marie-tharp

📷: Marie Tharp in 2001. Tharp's contributions to seafloor mapping helped reveal Earth's submarine landscape in unprecedented detail, and her work ultimately played an essential role in the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics. Courtesy of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp.

Celebrate with the Smithsonian! Our free “Picturing Women Inventors” poster exhibit developed with our friends at The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center celebrates the innovations of American women! You can download your free copy here: s.si.edu/3wvHCpy