Janet Wilmshurst - Fellow Royal Society of New Zealand

Abstract

Janet Wilmshurst is an internationally eminent palaeoecologist whose impressive research centres on reconstructing past ecologies of New Zealand and the Pacific. She has dramatically expanded our knowledge of pre-human ecosystems and the impacts of natural and human-induced environmental change. Based at Landcare Research in Canterbury she is the Director of the Long-Term Ecology Laboratory (LTEL) where she works with Jamie Wood, Matt McGlone, post graduate students Tess Cole and Alex Boast and research technicians Nic Bolstridge and Karen Boot. Current visiting researchers include Francisca Diaz from Chile. Janet is responsible for several significant research programmes and in 2013 she was appointed to a 0.2 FTE Associate Professorship at Auckland University (Harvie, 2015).