Stories by Tamara Pico

Tamara Pico finished her PhD at Harvard University in Earth and planetary sciences, with a secondary field in women, gender and sexuality studies in May 2019. Her research interests include ice sheets, landscapes and the origin of social cultures in geoscience. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, she works to document and analyze how social conventions and cultural practices affect women and underrepresented minorities in the geosciences.

Policy & Ethics

The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell

Like other early American geologists, the man who explored the Colorado River did anthropologic research that presupposed the racial inferiority of Native Americans

September 9, 2019 — Tamara Pico

Policy & Ethics

Does English Have to Be the Dominant Language of Science?

There are big advantages to having scientists communicate in a common tongue, but there are drawbacks as well

October 19, 2016 — Greta Shum and Tamara Pico