Cate Macinnis-Ng
{{Short description|New Zealand ecophysiologist}}
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Catriona M. O. Macinnis-Ng is a New Zealand ecologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the effects of climate change, especially drought, on plants. She has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, the Roger Slack Award, and the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring.
Academic career
Macinnis-Ng completed her undergraduate training in Sydney, before undertaking a PhD titled In situ monitoring of toxic pollutant impacts on the photosynthesis of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers at the University of Technology Sydney.{{Cite thesis|title=In situ monitoring of toxic pollutant impacts on the photosynthesis of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers |last=Macinnis-Ng|first=Catriona|type=PhD thesis|publisher=University of Technology Sydney|url=https://search.lib.uts.edu.au/permalink/61UTS_INST/19joism/alma991003416169705671|date=2002}} Macinnis-Ng held several research fellowships in Australia, before returning to New Zealand with her family in 2010.{{Cite web |last=University of Auckland |title=Academic profile: Professor Cate Macinnis-Ng |url=https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/c-macinnis-ng |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=profiles.auckland.ac.nz}} She joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2015, rising to full professor in 2024.
Macinnis-Ng was president of the New Zealand Ecological Society from 2017 to 2019. During her presidency she instituted a mentoring scheme that had mentored more than fifty members by 2023.{{Cite web |title=Cate Macinnis-Ng |url=https://www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/cate-macinnis-ng/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz}} Macinnis-Ng also mentors within the University of Auckland's Women in Science Programme, and serves on the Royal Society Te Apārangi Council.{{Cite web |title=Our Council |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-council/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}
Macinnis-Ng is a principal investigator in the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence. She was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start Grant in 2012 to research the ecophysiology of kauri trees, with respect to possible effects of drought and climate change.{{Cite web |title=Search Marsden awards 2008–2017 |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/awarded-grants/search-marsden-awards/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}
Honours and awards
In 2014 Macinnis-Ng was awarded a University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award. She was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015 to research the impact of drought on native forest ecosystems.{{Cite web |title=Rutherford Discovery Fellows - The University of Auckland |url=https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/research/about-our-research/rutherford-discovery-fellows.html |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.auckland.ac.nz}} She was awarded the Roger Slack Award in 2016 by the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists.{{Cite web |title=Roger Slack Award {{!}} |url=https://plantbiology.science.org.nz/?page_id=38 |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=plantbiology.science.org.nz}} In 2023 she received the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from the New Zealand Association for Women in Science.{{Cite web |title=The Miriam Dell Award - AWIS |url=https://www.awis.org.nz/what-we-do/awards/the-miriam-dell-award/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.awis.org.nz}}{{Cite web |title=2023 Dell Awardee - Cate Macinnis-Ng - AWIS |url=https://www.awis.org.nz/what-we-do/awards/the-miriam-dell-award/2023-dell-awardee-cate-macinnis-ng/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.awis.org.nz}}
Selected works
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- {{CiteQ|Q57191654}}
- {{CiteQ|Q56969835}}
- {{CiteQ|Q58312835}}
- {{CiteQ|Q112803811}}
- {{CiteQ|Q58275221}}
- {{CiteQ|Q33611738}}
- {{CiteQ|Q56969933}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7twxY5VExA Surviving in a changing climate: Life as a woman plant ecophysiologist], inaugural professorial lecture by Macinnis-Ng, 22 October 2024, via YouTube
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:University of Technology Sydney alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Auckland
Category:New Zealand ecologists
Category:Recipients of Marsden grants
Category:New Zealand women scientists