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Lost Women of Science Conversations - Brave the Wild River

2024/12/5
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Melissa Sivanyi: 我偶然在大学的档案馆里发现了Lois Jotter的论文,当时我正在寻找一些完全不相关的东西。我很好奇,所以我点击了它,记录中只有一个名字,那就是洛伊斯·乔特。我越读越觉得,哇,这真是一个非凡的故事。我最初想写关于科学的故事,因为之前关于这些女性的文章主要关注她们的冒险经历。我想写关于她们作为植物学家的工作,当然,冒险经历也融入其中,我希望这本书能吸引那些对科学不感兴趣的人。 Carol Sutton Lewis: 1938年夏天,两位植物学家,埃尔扎达·克洛弗(Elzada Clover)和洛伊斯·乔特(Lois Jotter),因成为首批乘科罗拉多河的女性而成为头条新闻。当时,女性进行这样的旅行是闻所未闻的,而且植物学领域也正在发生变化。探险队的领导者想成为大峡谷的第一位商业河流向导,还有一位动物学家、一位摄影师和一位工程师,船上的每个人都有不同的目标。

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Melissa Sevigny, a science writer, unexpectedly discovered the story of Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, two botanists who made a daring expedition down the Colorado River in 1938, through an online archive at a Flagstaff university. Their journals and letters detailed an ambitious plant survey of the Grand Canyon.
  • Melissa Sevigny discovered Lois Jotter's papers at an Arizona university archive.
  • Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter were botanists who made a significant expedition down the Colorado River in 1938.
  • Clover was older, ambitious, and obsessed with plants; Jotter was younger, bookish, and more laboratory-focused.

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Two female botanists – Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter – made headlines for riding the rapids of the Colorado River in 1938 in an effort to document the Grand Canyon’s plant life. In Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon), author Melissa L. Sevigny retraces their journey and shows how the ambitious river expedition, one that many believed impossible for women, changed not only Clover and Jotter but also our understanding of botany in this remote corner of the American West.

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