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Goldring was an educator as well as researcher. She commissioned and designed dioramas for the New York State Museum.^[1] The Petrified Sea Gardens, the stromatolite site that she studied, is a National Natural Landmark and a National Historic Landmark of the United States. She also mapped New York State geology, but it was from the Devonian age forests at Gilboa, New York, that truly solidified her reputation as an excellent paleontologist.^[7] This acclaimed diorama was named the Gilboa Fossil Forest after where it was located, as well as what Goldring used to piece together the layout of this diorama. In 1850 and 1920 in Gilboa, New York, petrified wood and fossilized rocks, respectively, were found^[12] and in 1920, Goldring studied them and eventually identified them to be the fossils of seed ferns.^[12]

Another one of her geological accomplishments was her work with the Devonian Crinoids. In 1916, her boss at the New York State Museum requested her to continue work on a crinoid fossil study which had been started but not completed by several other palaeontologists before her. She was required to finish identifying the different taxonomies of crinoid fossils. Not only was she able to complete this study in seven years, but out of the 25 families, 60 genera, and 155 species she recorded, she identified 2 new families, 18 new genera and 58 new species. Goldring published her findings in a monograph in 1923. This was so successful that other scientists and palaeontologists sent her their own fossil samples for her to identify .