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Wendy Nelson

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New Zealand marine scientist and phycologist (1954- still alive)

New Zealand ScientistsBorn 1954 · age 72

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Wendy Alison Nelson is a New Zealand marine scientist and world expert in phycology. She is New Zealand's leading authority on seaweeds.

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2020Nancy T. Burbidge Medal

2019Associate Emeritus of Auckland War Memorial Museum

2016Hutton Medal

2011Allan Mere award

2010Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

2008New Zealand Order of Merit

2008Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit

2007New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Award

1996Zonta Science Award

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Patricia BergquistAlso won New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Award Margot Bernice FordeAlso won Allan Mere award

David MabberleyAlso won Nancy T. Burbidge Medal

Patrick MarshallAlso won Hutton Medal Maia LewisAlso won New Zealand Order of Merit

Jane HardingAlso won Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi

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Wendy Alison Nelson is a New Zealand marine scientist and world expert in phycology. She is New Zealand's leading authority on seaweeds. Nelson is particularly interested in the biosystematics of seaweeds/macroalgae of New Zealand, with research on floristics, evolution and phylogeny, as well as ecology, and life history studies of marine algae. Recently she has worked on the systematics and biology of red algae including coralline algae, distribution and diversity of seaweeds in harbours and soft sediment habitats, and seaweeds of the Ross Sea and Balleny Islands.

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