New Zealand Seaweeds: An Illustrated Guide
The definitive and expert guide to the seaweeds of New Zealand’s coastal waters
Wendy Nelson
Wendy Nelson (FRSNZ, MNZM) is a Senior Research Fellow at Auckland Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira and an honorary academic in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland.
She specialises in marine phycology, particularly the biosystematics of macroalgae of New Zealand, with research on floristics, evolution and phylogeny, as well as ecology and life history studies. Recently, Wendy has been focusing on research at Rangitāhua as part of research programme led by Ngāti Kuri with Auckland Museum, as well as research on coralline algae.
In 2016, she was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi Hutton Medal, for outstanding work by a researcher in New Zealand in the earth, plant, and animal sciences, and in 2020 the Nancy Burbidge Medal from the Australasian Systematic Botany Society.
Wendy Nelson. Photograph by Dave Allen. NIWA
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