Katharine Fowler-Billings
Geologist, Author
1902 – 1997
Who was Katharine Fowler-Billings?
Katharine Fowler Billings was an accomplished naturalist and geologist, married to Marland Pratt Billings.
She was raised in Boston, studied at Bryn Mawr College, and received further geological training in the Rocky Mountains. She received a PhD from Columbia University. Her "publication record ... includes fundamental geological descriptions of large areas in Wyoming, Sierra Leone, and New Hampshire."
She was an environmental activist in New England.
She was an Honorary Fellow of the New Hampshire Geological Society.
The Marland Pratt Billings and Katharine Fowler-Billings Fund for Research in New England Geology was established to honor the contributions to "the study of the geology of New England" by Fowler-Billings and her husband.
Katharine Fowler Billings died December 17, 1997, in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She was 95.
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