See below the email to MTnet from Dr. Alan Jones about geophysicist Rosemary Hutton, with free access to their paper on her life for the next two weeks.
The challenges women face in geoscience are ongoing, including effects of this pandemic. I am encouraging you all to check out Women Geoscientists in Canada <http://wgcanada.org>, sign up for the newsletter, and attend the WGC Summit <http://wgcanada.org/wgcsummit> on November 6th (details at wgcanada.org/wgcsummit and more information to come during October!). Take care, Sarah -- Sarah Devriese, PhD, P.Geo. [email protected] *linkedin.com/in/sarahdevriese <http://linkedin.com/in/sarahdevriese>* ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Webmaster MTNet <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:21 AM Subject: [MTNet] A pioneering geophysicist: Rosemary Hutton To: MTNet <[email protected]> Dear MTNet colleagues, I don't allow promotion of papers by MTNet email distribution, as we'd all be flooded, but do allow it on the MTNet web site - see http://www.mtnet.info/publications/recent_pubs.html However, I hope you will forgive this exception to that rule - you will understand why when you read my email. The Geological Society of London had a special meeting in May 2019 to celebrate the Centenary of the First Female Fellows of the Geological Society. The full details can be found here: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/expired/HOGG-Female-Fellows-Event Bruce Hobbs and I put in a proposal to describe the life of Rosemary Hutton at this meeting, and we were accepted and gave our paper there. Subsequently, Special Publication SP506 of the Geol Soc is now out on "Celebrating 100 Years of Female Fellowship of the Geological Society: Discovering Forgotten Histories", and you can find the list of papers here: https://sp.lyellcollection.org/online-first/506 A fascinating read - the challenges faced and defeated by geoscience women is inspiring. Our paper on Rosemary, titled "A pioneering geophysicist: Rosemary Hutton", is available *free for download* for the next 2 weeks, starting today (so until Tuesday 6th October), and we encourage you all to download it and read the amazing life that Rosemary had. Get it from here: https://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/early/2020/09/24/SP506-2019-211 But why am I sending this around MTNet? Well, because if it were not for Rosemary, we probably would not have had our biennial EM Induction Workshops since 1972!!! Not only do I personally owe Rosemary my own career (I was her second PhD student), as do a number of us who were her students, we all owe Rosemary aspects of our career through her legacy, which is the wonderful EM Induction Workshops that have had such an influence on our lives for the last 48 years. It is amazing when you think about how our workshops came about - I'm not sure we could initiate such a long-running and well-established series these days in such an offhand manner. Rosemary was in a tea/coffee queue at the IUGG meeting in Moscow in 1971, stood with Professors Attia A. Ashour (Egypt) and Walter Kertz (Germany) - titans in the field. The three of them were discussing the need for a focussed meeting on EM Induction, and Ashour turned around to Rosemary and said - "Rosemary, you should organize a workshop!". And she did a year later! And it was a tremendous success, so there was a 2nd in Ottawa in 1974, then a 3rd in Sopron (Hungary) in 1976, and we haven't stopped yet! (Yes, we are pausing 2020). Rosemary had only recently arrived into Edinburgh from Africa to take up her lectureship, and here she was agreeing to organize an international workshop without any prior experience. Rosemary gave a retrospective of the workshops in 1990 at the Ensenada one, and you can find her talk and slides here: http://www.mtnet.info/docs/Huttons_1990_Retrospective/Huttons_1990_Retrospective.html I gave an updated retrospective at the 2012 Darwin workshop, and I will soon make that available on MTNet. But when you read our paper you will appreciate that getting things done was the hallmark of Rosemary her whole life. You will appreciate just what an influence she has had on the field and on many of us personally. You will appreciate just what a strong pioneering geophysicist Rosemary was. I would like to suggest to the Turkey 2022 EM Induction Workshop Programme Committee that we celebrate Rosemary's legacy by having a session named in her honour. The 2022 workshop will be 50 years of EM workshops, so it is very appropriate. The session could cover those aspects that Rosemary addressed in her career: - Equatorial electrojet - MT instrumentation development - Magnetometer studies - Rifting, with a focus on the Kenyan rift - Collisional orogens, with a focus on the Iapetus suture - Geothermal studies - Fracture studies Finally, Rosemary was the ONLY FEMALE at the Edinburgh workshop in 1972. At the 2nd workshop in Ottawa (1974) there were two - Rosemary and her Post-Doc, Jane Sik (other women in the group shot are spouses: http://www.mtnet.info/workshops/1974_Ottawa/ottawa_photo.jpg). By the 4th workshop in Murnau (1978) there are four - Rosemary, Jane, and two others ( http://www.mtnet.info/workshops/1978_Murnau/murnau_photo.jpg). Now our female attendance at our workshops is over 40% - a lot higher than most STEM fields, especially other geophysics fields. Perhaps the sense of inclusion for females that was established from the very beginning by Rosemary organizing the first one has perpetuated down the years since at our workshops. I leave you with the image below, which is the Hutton academic "family" tree. Rosemary had 15 academic "children", and we have gone on to have academic children of our own (Rosemary's grandchildren), and our academic children are having academic children of their own (Rosemary's academic great-granchildren). (This isn't up-to-date as it was prepared almost 2 years ago - please send me updates to [email protected]). Missing from this family tree are the "cousins" if you life, the colleagues Rosemary has worked with, and the younger "cousins", the PostDocs each of us have had. If I add those to this tree you will see just how far and wide Rosemary's influence has been. With very best regards all, and please STAY SAFE!!! Alan P.S. If you are a twitter user, please could you go on the tweet from the Geol Soc and like it or retweet it. That way the Geol Soc will see the impact the paper is having: https://twitter.com/geolsoc/status/1310945205605093376 -- Alan G Jones MTNet webmaster _______________________________________________ MTNet mailing list [email protected] http://list.mtnet.info/mailman/listinfo/mtnet_list.mtnet.info
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