Betty Kellett Nadeau
Betty Kellett Nadeau (April 23, 1905 – June 21, 1999), born Elizabeth Rosina Kellett, was an American paleontologist and micro-paleontologist who studied Palaeozoic ostracod.[1][2] Numerous marine species were discovered due to the work she had done throughout her fruitful career. This work is evident to the genus Bekena named after her.
Early life[edit]
Elizabeth Rosina Kellett was born in 1905 in Kansas to Elsie Jane and Edward Vernon Kellett.[3][4] For part of her childhood, she lived in Miami, Oklahoma.[4]
Kellett moved to Lawrence, Kansas[5] and attended the University of Kansas, where she studied with state geologist Raymond Cecil Moore and graduated in 1927. She pursued further studies in Massachusetts, working in the laboratory of paleontologist Joseph Augustine Cushman.[6]
Career[edit]
She worked for the Amerada Petroleum Corporation of Tulsa, Oklahoma beginning in 1929,[7] before moving to Lake Charles, Louisiana, where she worked for Stone & Webster. In 1934, in Lake Charles, she married Edward Hollis Nadeau.[4] Beginning in 1947, Nadeau taught at Washington University in St. Louis.[8] , where she worked with Dorothy Jung Echols and became lifelong companions and continued to work together on many research projects. By 1958, she had left St. Louis to follow her husband E. H. Nadeau to Naples, Italy and to Venezuela, where he was stationed.[9]
Work[edit]
Some of the types of ostracods she worked with were primary types, as well as topotypes. These were collected from above and below the surface of the ground. Nadeau observed that there existed a multiplicity of variations not only between species of ostracods, but among each species as well. This research was based on the Kansas ostracods. She discovered that the variations within the Kansas ostracods was mainly caused by variations or mutations within individuals. She also found that sex and age of ostracods to be contributors to the variation. She spent eight years studying carboniferous ostracods and studying the different types of variations among this species.[10]
Legacy[edit]
The species Paraparchites kellettae,[11] Hollinella kellettae,[12] Remaneica kellettae,[13] Pseudobythocypris kellettae,[14] and Polytylites kellettae[15] and the genus Bekena[16][17] are named for her.
References[edit]
- ^ Crespin, Irene (1951), Report on visit to United States of America (PDF), Australian Bureau of Mineral Resources: Geology and Geophysics
- ^ "Journal Article, Nonmarine Ostracodes: The Subfamily Cyprideinae in the Rocky Mountain Area". jstor. SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology. JSTOR 1299924.
- ^ "1930 U. S. Census: Tulsa, Oklahoma". FamilySearch. Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. 8 April 1930. p. 4-B. NARA microfilm publication T626, Roll #1935. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
- ^ a b c "Announcements". The Miami Daily News-Record. Miami, Oklahoma. June 10, 1934. p. 11. Retrieved 18 October 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "In the Old Home Town" Lawrence Journal-World (September 11, 1935): 4.
- ^ "Makes Geological Map" Courier-News (April 24, 1933): 13. via Newspapers.com
- ^ Plummer, F. B. (December 1929), "Researches in Paleontology", Journal of Paleontology, 3 (4): 415–419, JSTOR 1297919
- ^ "Six New Instructors Named at Washington U." St. Louis Post-Dispatch (January 26, 1947): 25. via Newspapers.com
- ^ "News Reports", Micropaleontology, 5 (3): 383–388, July 1959, JSTOR 1484435
- ^ Kellett Nadeau, Betty (December 1936). "Carboniferous Ostracodes". Journal of Paleontology. 10: 769–784.
- ^ Sohn, I. G. (1971), New Late Mississippian Ostracode Genera and Species from Northern Alaska (PDF), US Geological Survey
- ^ McLaughlin, Kenneth P. (1952), "Microfauna of the Pennsylvanian Glen Eyrie Formation, Colorado", Journal of Paleontology, 26 (4): 613–621, JSTOR 1299847
- ^ Remaneica kellettae Thalmann 1932, World Register of Marine Species
- ^ Pseudobythocypris kellettae (Cordell, 1952) Shaver, 1958, World Register of Marine Species
- ^ Polytylites kellettae Elias 1958, World Register of Marine Species
- ^ Gibson, Lee B. (1955), "Upper Devonian ostracoda from the Cerro Gordo formation of Iowa", Bulletins of American Paleontology, 35 (154): 335–386. See in particular p. 349.
- ^ Bekena Gibson 1955, World Register of Marine Species
