Pierina Pasotti

Pierina Antonieta Ernestina Pasotti (29 June 1902 – 18 June 1996) was an Argentine geologist, geographer and professor who advanced the geological science of the Argentine pampas and the province of Santa Fe. She was the first woman to be named professor emerita at the National University of Rosario.

Biography Pasotti was born in Rosario, Santa Fe province, in 1902, but moved with her family to Italy as a child.

She was a teacher in Geography at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (today, Humanities and Arts), at the secondary level at the Escuela Industrial de la Nación (today the Instituto Politécnico Superior) and at the Dante Alighieri Institute, in Rosario between the years 1936 and 1955. Pasotti, Pierina. Vinculaciones de la tectonica con el reccorrido de las redes hidrograficas en la Llanura argentina y en especial en la Bonaerense. Instituto de geografia, (Links between tectonics and the course of hydrographic networks in the Argentine Plain and especially in the Buenos Aires Plain. Institute of Geography) (1958). Pasotti, Pierina. "La Neotectónica en llanura pampeana: fundamentos para el mapa neotectónico." (Neotectonics in the Pampas plain: foundations for the neotectonic map) (1974). Pasotti, Pierina, Oscar A. Albert, and Carlos A. Canoba. "Contribución al conocimiento de la laguna Melincué." (Contribution to the knowledge of the Melincué lagoon) (1984). Pasotti, Pierina, and Oscar A. Albert. "El río Carcarañá en territorio santafesino." (The Carcarañá River in Santa Fe territory) (1991).