RC Lane Cove - Anctarctic Ecosystem
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Lane Cove
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PATRICIA SELKIRK Patricia Selkirk, AAM is an Australian plant biologist and ecologist. Her career has focused on Antarctic and subantarctic terrestrial ecosystems and she is recognized as being a pioneering female Australian Antarctic scientist. Dr Selkirk has made significant contributions to Antarctic science in several capacities:
- as a member of national scientific committees (such as ASAC, ANCAR and AREG);
- as an academic at Macquarie University (through student research supervision and the development of an Antarctic studies unit); and
- through her scientific research (both on the Antarctic continent and subantarctic islands).