. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. ucceeding in a Man's World By Edgerton A scientist is a frizzy-haired Caucasian man in a bleached lab coat hovering over a beaker of bubbling liquid, right? Wrong, except that most working sci- entists are Caucasian men. In the last decade, women have made great strides in banking, construction and dozens of other vocations formerly dominated by males. Not so in research science, where only a few women have broken into the ranks. Some folks are wondering why. Sea Grant researchers Celia Bona- ventura
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. ucceeding in a Man's World By Edgerton A scientist is a frizzy-haired Caucasian man in a bleached lab coat hovering over a beaker of bubbling liquid, right? Wrong, except that most working sci- entists are Caucasian men. In the last decade, women have made great strides in banking, construction and dozens of other vocations formerly dominated by males. Not so in research science, where only a few women have broken into the ranks. Some folks are wondering why. Sea Grant researchers Celia Bona- ventura and JoAnn Burkholder have some answers based on their own per- sonal pursuits of science. "The idea is that females are not en- couraged to take risks in our society," says Bonaventura of the Duke University Marine Lab in Beaufort. "And only if a person is willing to take risks can they advance new things and be on the fore- front of new ; Both Bonaventura and Burkholder, a botanist at North Carolina State Univer- sity, are respected scientists. As Sea Grant researchers, they have made im- portant contributions to our knowledge of the marine ecosystem. Along the way, they've encountered barriers because they are female. For Burkholder, the pressure started at home. "My mom tried to get me to be a sec- retary," she says. "But I knew what I wanted to do. When I was 15, I read an article about the nuisance algae that was threatening the Great Lakes. My interest was aroused, and I never looked back. I really wanted to make a ; Her father became her mentor. He taught her that being a woman should not stop her from doing what she wanted to do. "My father is part Indian," she says. "He had a great reverence for the woods and for conservation. I remember him showing me bluebirds when I was four and helping me build a butterfly collec- tion when I was five. Through him, I developed that same reverence for the outdoo
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