Mary Odile Cahoon

Mary Odile Cahoon OSB (1929-2011) was an American Benedictine nun who was among the first women to do research in Antarctica.

She had a doctorate in biology, and taught at the College of St. Scholastica.[1][2]

In 1974, Mary Odile Cahoon and Mary Alice McWhinnie became the first women scientists to overwinter at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, with 128 men,[3] although the first woman to be there in the winter was in 1947 and other countries had taken women to Antarctica for some years.[4]

References
  1. Obituary at the Mayo News
  2. Esther D. Rothblum; Jacqueline S. Weinstock; Jessica Morris (1998). Women in the Antarctic. Psychology Press. pp. 31–39. ISBN 978-0-7890-0247-1.
  3. Cornelia, Dean (1998). "After a Struggle, Women Win A Place 'on the Ice'; In Labs and in the Field, a New Outlook". Retrieved 28 April 2015.
  4. Dean, Cornelia (1998-11-10). "After a Struggle, Women Win A Place 'on the Ice'; In Labs and in the Field, a New Outlook". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-03.


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