[1][2] She was editor-in-chief of the 10-volume series The Biology of Crustacea and author of the popular book Shrimps, Lobsters and Crabs.

She taught at Milton Academy in Massachusetts from 1942 to 1949 and was a teaching fellow at Radcliffe College from 1947 to 1951 while performing doctoral research in the lab of John Henry Welsh.

Her dissertation research focused on the neural and hormonal structures in the eye stalks of the land crab Gecarcinus lateralis, a species which she would study in the lab and field throughout her career.

[1] She performed laboratory studies on molting, and salt and water balance, and field research in Florida, Bermuda, and Bimini, studying aspects such as land crab burrowing and spawning and the impact of moisture different species distributions.

[7] She produced over 40 scientific papers and was editor-in-chief of The Biology of Crustacea (Academic Press), an influential 10-volume work begun in 1977 and continuing until 1986.