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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2012-01-06 human Rebecca Rigby and Helen Cohn updated 2026-02-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P004914b.htm person Crockford Joan Marian AACR2 Crockford-Beattie, Joan Beattie, Joan 1919 4 September 2015 Place of Birth Hunter's Hill, New South Wales, Australia Palaeontologist Joan Crockford was a geologist and invertebrate palaeontologist who specialised in Palaeozoic bryozoans. Between 1952 and 1957, while resident at Captain's Flat, N.S.W., Crockford was commissioned to study the bryozoan material collected by Bureau of Mineral Resources staff in the Fitzroy Basin and Carnarvon regions of Western Australia. She identified 79 species, of which 42 were new to science, and published the results of her work in Permian Bryozoa from the Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia (1957), in the Bureau's series of Bulletins. In all Crockford published two new families, seven new genera and over 100 new species of Bryozoans collected between 1940 and 1956 collected in Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania. After moving to Sydney in 1963 she qualified as a teacher and taught in secondary schools for a number of years. Crockford was a Foundation Member of the Geological Society of Australia. 1936 1936 Award - Prize for Women in Geology, University of Sydney 1938 1938 Award - Edgeworth David Prize for Palaeontology University of Sydney 1939 1939 Education - Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) 1940 1940 Award - University Medal, University of Sydney 1942 1942 Education - Masters of Science, University of Sydney 1943 1945 Award - Linnean Macleay Fellowship (Geology), for study at the University of Sydney 1951 1951 Education - Doctorate of Science At Sydney University 1952 Career position - Foundation Member, Geological Society of Australia c. 1952 c. 1952 Career position - Contract work for the Bureau of Mineral Resources (BMR) 1957 1957 Publication - Book: Permian Bryozoa from the Fitzroy Basin, Western Australia for the BMR Bulletin Brown, Ida Alison (1900 - 1976) Geological Society of Australia Inc (1952 - )

Foundation Member 1952 -

 Linnean Macleay Fellowship (1905 - )

Awarded the Fellowship (Geology) 1943 - 1945

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 'Crockford, Joan Marian', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Crockford, Joan Marian Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Joan Crockford-Beattie D.Sc. Turner, Susan Joan Crockford-Beattie D.Sc. Dublin International Bryozoological Association 2008 Annals of bryozoology 2: aspects of the history of research on bryozoans Wyse, Patrick N. and Specner-Jones, Mary E. 421-5 Journal Article: Women in geology: the travails of Joan Beattie, a would-be researcher Branagan, David Women in geology: the travails of Joan Beattie, a would-be researcher 2018 Newsletter, Earth Sciences History Group 45 40-3 Journal Article: Invincible but mostly Invisible: Australian Women's Contribution to Geology and Palaeontology Turner, S. Invincible but mostly Invisible: Australian Women's Contribution to Geology and Palaeontology 2007 Geological Society Special Publication 281 165-202 Book: Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Hooker, Claire Irresistible Forces: Australian Women in Science Carlton Melbourne University Press 2004