Isabel Bassett Wasson
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Isabel Bassett Wasson （January 11, 1897 – February 21, 1994） was one of the first female petroleum geologists in the United States, the first female ranger at Yellowstone National Park,
and also one of the first interpretive rangers （male or female） hired by the National Park Service.
Wasson at an outcrop, circa 1920 Wasson was born Isabel Deming Bassett in Brooklyn, NY on January 11, 1897, daughter of urban planner Edward Bassett and Annie Preston Bassett, and sister of inventor and engineer Preston Bassett.
Wasson graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1918, majoring in history so she could take a wide range of science courses.
She took classes in geology after graduation at the University of Chicago and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
She met her future husband, petroleum geologist Theron Wasson, whom she married in 1920, while working towards a master's degree in geology at Columbia University, which she finished in 1934.
They had three children: Elizabeth W. Bergstrom, a biologist; Edward B. Wasson, a petroleum geologist; and Anne Harney Gallagher, an art historian.
Wasson worked as a petroleum geologist in her husband's office at the Pure Oil Company from the early 1920s until 1928.
She published two scholarly articles on geology, one co-authored with her husband about an oil field discovered by Pure Oil in 1914, and another by
herself about the ages of rock formations in Ohio and new terminology for them; the latter was cited in a number of other papers and a recent book.
After 1928 she spent over 50 years in River Forest, IL, teaching science in the local public schools,...
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