Tag Black In Marine Science

Dr. Joan Murrell Owens

Black and white photo of a Black woman with short, curly, dark hair seated at a microscope in a lab. She wears a floral blouse and a long sting of pearls. In her right hand she holds a button coral: a circle of white with faint striation radiating from the center

From a young age Dr. Owens had a deep love of the oceans. Her parents would take her and her two sisters fishing on the weekends and both encouraged their daughters to pursue higher education. Reading about both Jacques Cousteau…

Dr. Roger Arliner Young

This month’s Spotlight is one of the first women we know of in modern days to work in marine biology, Dr. Roger Arliner Young. Born in 1899 Dr. Young attended Howard University first as a music student and later taking…

Black History Month, (from 2019)

collage of 7 Black Marine Biologists. Top row L to R: Dionne Hoskins-Brown, Ph.D, Dr. Dijanna Figueroa, Dr. Daniel Pauly, Robert K. Trench Bottom row L to R: Samuel Milton Nabrit, Ernest Everett Just, Roger Arliner Young

While reading many great articles about #BlackExcellence this month I thought about how I might contribute to the conversation, if at all. I finally settled on doing some research on one of my favorite topics: Marine Biology. Specifically, I was…