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As the International Association of Hydrological Sciences History of Hydrology Working Group mission notes, there is no readily available source of information about the history of hydrology and hydrologists. In particular, the contributions of marginalized genders in hydrology have been – and continue to be – invisible, overlooked, or disregarded, leaving a gap in efforts to catalog the history of hydrology and hydrologists. Recent efforts to recognize gender diversity in the field have challenged the perceptions that past contributions were non-existent. As examples, the Journal of Hydrology has just finished a special issue titled, “Women in Hydrology,” the journal WIREs Water published a historical perspective on women in limnology, and several U.S. government science agencies have initiatives to honor the contributions of women. To further and expand these ground-breaking efforts, we propose to document contributions by marginalized gender to hydrology dating back to the contributions of indigenous women to the mapping of water resources in the western United States through to the modern period of global hydrology. Using analogous methods from other efforts to uncover these invisible contributions, including interviews with later-career hydrologists and historical accounts of diverse genders that have supported and enabled success in hydrology, we plan to catalog these unique and significant contributions that have shaped our understanding of water. Our work will detail the initial efforts underway and seek to further engage the community this initiative.
