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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…