February: Winter Coastal Adventures Pt. 2

As we traveled north to Washington, DC, the sun shone brightly as melting icicles clung to road signs and trees.  We went to the south hoping for slightly warmer temperatures and arrived on the coldest week of the year.  Oh well.  Our roadtrip to DC featured a stop in Richmond, VA for lunch at a […]

Adventures in Berkeley Part 2: Why the Beards?

When we visited GSA in Vancouver in the autumn of 2014,  we were a team of two artists and one paleontologist, all of whom were anxious to see how our collaborative project would be received. How would the scientific community respond to what we were trying to accomplish? Could we express the importance of this […]

Let’s Get Started

How The Bearded Lady Project Came to Be I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. –Maya Angelou There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. –Amy Poehler I hadn’t showered in three days. It was […]

From Bearded Lady Contributor: Penny Higgins

I am a woman geoscientist. I’ve always been outdoors-y. I’ve always been independent. I always wanted to be a scientist. I thought dinosaurs were cool when I was a kid. I decided I wanted to make a career of studying them. (It hasn’t exactly worked out that way, but that’s a different story!) Women do […]