Amelia attended Girls’ High (at that time called The Girls’ Normal School) and then enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied botany.[4]
Amelia Smith Calvert became a demonstrator in zoology at the University of Pennsylvania where, briefly, she was a graduate student from 1904 to 1906.[4]
In 1909 Amelia Smith Calvert moved to Costa Rica with husband Philip Powell Calvert, where he would carry out entomological research for two years on some of animal species such as caterpillars. While spending this time in Costa Rica, Amelia would go on to study the inhabitants of the flora. In 1910, the couple returned from their trip after barely surviving a violent earthquake that destroyed their hotel.[4]
A Year of Costa Rican Natural History
In 1917, Amelia and Philip published their book A Year Of Costa Rican Natural History.[5] In the study of the fauna and flora Calvert found that many flowers would bloom in a dry season where many of these flowers would dry out. This was important where they would be a source of food for many of the insects that Philip Powell Calvert was studying such as butterflies and dragonflies.[6]
Amelia's travel led to her study of Panama disease in some of the plant life. Among those plants were bananas and how they reproduce and grow. In her studies of the banana plantations she found a dark brown hue. This hue is an insignificant coloration only for healthy bananas so it was important to study about the rapid growth of the Panama disease.[7]
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