USA: Releasing a Google Doodle on Monday, Google honored the life of Mary Tharp, an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who contributed to the recognition of continental drift theories.
The unique animated doodle offers an insightful look at Tharp's achievements in ocean mapping. The world's first ocean floor map was co-published by Mary Tharp.
On November 21, 1998, he was recognized by the Library of Congress as one of the greatest cartographers of the 20th century. Tharp was the only child of her parents when she was born on July 19, 1920, in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States.
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Kaitlyn Larsen, Rebecca Nessel, and Dr. Tiara Moore, three accomplished women currently carrying on Tharp's legacy by making advances in the traditionally male-dominated fields of oceanography and geology, tell Tharp's story in today's Doodle Huh.
Since her father worked for the US Department of Agriculture, Mary Tharp was exposed to mapping at a young age. She earned a master's degree in petroleum geology at the University of Michigan, which was particularly impressive considering the paucity of women in science careers at the time.
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In 1948, she moved to New York City and hired the first female employee at the Lamont Geological Observatory, where she met geologist Bruce Hazen.
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In the Atlantic Ocean, Hazen collected information about ocean depths, which Tharp used to create maps of the mysterious ocean floor.
In 1995, Tharp donated the entirety of his collection of maps to the Library of Congress. He was recognized by the Library of Congress as one of the most important cartographers of the 20th century.