Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the estate of Marie Tharp Until ...

Until 1957, most of the public believed that the bottom of the ocean was a flat featureless expanse of sand, stretching endlessly around the globe. Then the first relief map of the Atlantic Ocean ...

The Navy's top official announced that, as part of his efforts to celebrate "the countless contributions women have made and service to our nation" on International Women's Day, March 8, he is ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X In the sunlight of a May afternoon on the Chesapeake Bay, a 72-foot schooner called the Marie Tharp floated above a ...

Imagine a young woman who sought to explore the oceans’ depths but was barred from going to sea. From her desk in New York City in the 1950s, she used bits of data gathered by the ships she couldn’t ...

The Navy announced Wednesday that the oceanographic survey ship USNS Maury would be renamed in honor of Marie Tharp, a survey pioneer. The ship had previously been named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, ...

Nicole Trenholm talks about the Niskin water sampler from the deck of R/V Marie Tharp. Trenholm is lead scientist and oceanographer for Ocean Research Project. The crew will leave Annapolis aboard the ...

Marie Tharp, 86, an oceanographic cartographer who drew pioneering maps of the world's oceans and whose observations from the late 1950s through the 1970s helped scientists reconsider the geology of ...

In the sunlight of a May afternoon on the Chesapeake Bay, a 72-foot schooner called the Marie Tharp floated above a shipwreck from long ago. The boat’s instruments were hard at work, mapping the ruins ...