Jean Milton Berdan (May 19, 1916 – November 16, 2004) was an American geologist.

Jean Milton Berdan
BornMay 19, 1916
DiedNovember 16, 2004
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materYale University, 1949
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUnited States Geological Survey, Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch

Biography

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Berdan was born in 1916. After receiving a bachelor's degree from Vassar College, she received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1949.[1] She joined the United States Geological Survey Water Resource Division in 1942. On the year she graduated from Yale, she got a career in the Paleontology and Stratigraphy Branch of the USGS. She made ostracodes and stratigraphy for Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian periods. She wrote plenty of papers on them, including, USGS Examinations and Reports, filings, notes, and photographs. She died in 2004.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni | The People of Earth & Planetary Sciences". people.earth.yale.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  2. ^ "Accession 01-029 Jean Milton Berdan Papers, 1943-1993". Smithsonian Institution Archives. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  3. ^ "In Memoriam: Jean Milton Berdan, 1916-2004". Archived from the original on 2015-01-07. Retrieved 2015-01-07.