The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dawn Wright.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 42 min., 32 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.204
Subjects

Other author/creatorWright, Dawn J., 1961- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Dawn Wright
Portion of title Dawn Wright
Abstract Oceanographer and professor Dawn Jeannine Wright was born on April 15, 1960 and raised in Maui, Hawaii. She received her B.S. degree in geology in 1983 from Wheaton College and earned her M.S. degree from Texas A&M University in Oceanography in 1986. Following her work as a marine laboratory specialist, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1994. She began her work at Oregon State University in 1995, where she became a professor in the Department of Geosciences in September 2002. She was an expert on the Geographic Information System, and her work focused on mapping the ocean floor around the globe. Her work was used in the studies of geophysical features and processes occurring at the bottom of the ocean. She received several awards in recognition of her work both as a teacher and as a leading scientist in her field.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Los Angeles, California 2012 November 27.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2012.204 HistoryMakers

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