Emmeline Moore
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April 29, 1872
Wellesley College(MA)
Emmeline Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born | Emmeline Moore April 29, 1872 Batavia, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 12, 1963 (aged 91) Guilderland, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University(BA, PhD) Wellesley College(MA) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology Fisheries |
Emmeline Moore (April 29, 1872–September 12, 1963)[1][2] was an American biologist known for her various articles on fish diseases, as well as pioneering work in conservation and combating water pollution. She earned a PhD in biology from Cornell University in 1916. Moore supervised and edited fourteen watershed reports conducted in New York between 1926 and 1939[3]: 311 and these were the most comprehensive scientific surveys of any states' water resources. She died at a nursing home in Guilderland, New York, at the age of 91 following an extended illness.[1]
Emmeline Moore was born in Batavia, New York, in 1872 and grew up on a farm there.[4] In 1895, she graduated from Geneseo Normal School (now SUNY Geneseo),[5] and, like many women born in the 1870s she taught at the normal schools.[6]
She then enrolled at Cornell University, earning a BA in 1905, followed by an MA at Wellesley College in 1906. After acquiring her masters she taught biology in normal schools for four years and then accepted a position of substitute professor of botany at Huguenot College in South Africa for a year in 1911.[7]
Moore then returned to the United States. This was followed by further study at Cornell, where she received her PhD in 1916 in biology.[5] From 1914 to 1919, Moore taught biology at Vassar College, eventually rising to the level of assistant professor. She also worked at the Bureau of Fisheries during summers which piqued her interest in research work.[3]
