Professional Career
Goldring became the fourth State Paleontologist of New York, and the first woman to hold that position. In 1949 she was elected president of the Paleontological Society (the largest association of paleontologists in the world)--the first woman to hold that office and one of only two women to attain that position to this day. Because these were (and still are) male-dominated geological societies, large numbers of men must have supported her candidacy for Goldring to win, underscoring her prominence as a nationally-known geologist respected for the quality of her research, despite prevalent gender prejudices in academia.
Goldring was an educator as well as researcher, and she commissioned and designed dioramas for the New York State Museum. Petrified Sea Gardens, the stromatolite site that she studied, is a National Natural Landmark and a National Historic Landmark of the United States.
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