Carlotta Maury

[7] One of the founding members of Radcliffe College and the first president, Elizabeth Agassiz, played a key role in Maury’s education.

After spending a year at Sorbonne for post-graduate studies, in 1902, Maury completed her PhD in paleontology at Cornell University.

[8] Upon completion of her degree, Maury started teaching at Erasmus High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1900.

The team’s objective was to investigate oil-rich areas off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico.

Maury’s specific contribution to the team’s research efforts was assembling data based on paleontologist findings in order to create a structure map of a large region.

From 1910-1911 Maury had the opportunity to be a part of Arthur Clifford Veatch’s geological expedition to Venezuela as a paleontologist during that time.

[4] After teaching at Huguenot College in Wellington, South Africa, she returned to the Caribbean in 1916 as a leader of the "Maury Expedition" to the Dominican Republic, despite political instability in the area at the time.

Her goal was to order the stratigraphic layers of the Miocene and Oligocene eras, which were composed of sedimentary rock with heavy fossil deposits.

In 1925, Maury published "Fosseis Terciarios do Brasil com Descripção de Novas Formas Cretaceas".

[11] The monograph details mostly on fossils from the geological epoch of the Lower Miocene that were found in Rio Pirabas and Bragança to Belém.

[1] Her skills and capabilities were highly acknowledged that she became an official paleontologist with the Geological and Mineralogical Service of Brazil.