Carol Gardipe

Carol Gardipe (Penobscot/Passamaquoddy), is an award-winning geologist, whose career has included positions with the USGS, NOAA, and roles in higher education as a professor and administrator. Ms. Gardipe attended the University of Wyoming, Laramie, and Colby College, Main where received a BA in geology and taught. She worked in Washington DC, and on field mapping teams in the southwest for the USGS. Gardipe attended graduate school at the University of New Mexico studying geography and natural resources. While there she directed the American Indian Engineering Program for two years, the first program in the country for American Indian Engineers, and worked with the National Research Council Committee on Minorities in Engineering. In 1977, she was one of the seven founders of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) along with; Arnold Anderson, Al Qëyawayma, George Thomas, Jerry Elliot, and Jim Shorty. When asked why they formed AISES, she is quoted as saying “there was a great need, as American Indians were largely absent from the science and technology fields.”