Kate Pennington

Kate Pennington

  • Joined: June 11, 2025
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Katy Payne, bioacoustics pioneer

ID: Black and white photo of a smiling, middle aged, white woman with short hair, her arms out stretched. She’s wearing an over-sized white t-shirt, khaki pants and dark sandals. She stands on a flat surface (possibly a barge) on a smooth water way, surrounded by trees

Katy Payne does not have a doctorate or much in the way of papers with her name on them but her curiosity and early love of music lead to monumental breakthroughs in our understand of whale song and elephant communication. …

Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields (ret.)

Rear Admiral Evelyn Fields’ name has come up many times when researching Black women in Marine Science. I don’t immediately think of military officers also being scientists, but many of them are, if not directly, then in support positions that…

Mary Anning, Paleontologist

I first learned about Mary Anning on a trip to the National History Museum, London, UK in Sept of 2024. One flight up from the Blue whale skeleton hanging in the grand entryway, is this gorgeous, wall mounted Plesiosaurus skeleton…

Professor Idelisa Bonnelly

Professor Bonnelly, an older woman with light brown skin and salt-n-pepper hair. She wears a white blazer, red blouse, a strand of pearls, and glasses. She is smiling at her desk, books and papers before her. Photographer unkown.

Often called the mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean, Professor Idelisa Bonnelly might be one of the most important women in Humpback whale research. Between getting her own marine biology degrees in the United States, because her home country…