Sally Carson

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Sally F. Carson is a Canadian marine biologist and the director of the New Zealand Marine Studies Centre at the University of Otago. [1] [2]

Carson completed a bachelor of science degree at Mount Allison University in 1984, and a master's in science at the University of Alberta. [3] [4] Much of her postgraduate research was completed at Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre, Vancouver Island. [5]

In 2017, Carson designed a national citizen science project to involve members of the public in the long term monitoring of the New Zealand seashore. [1] She has written a range of educational resources for primary and intermediate school students, as well as a series of identification guides to the plants and animals which inhabit New Zealand's seashores. [5]

Selected Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "The creatures of our seashore". Radio New Zealand . 13 November 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  2. Stokes, Ella (23 January 2019). "In the vanguard of marine science". Otago Daily Times . Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  3. Carson, Sally F (1984). Asexual propagation in the sea star: Stephanasterias albula (Thesis). OCLC   71763710.
  4. Carson, Sally F (1990). Development and reproductive biology of three species of Solaster sea stars from the northeast Pacific Ocean (Thesis). Ottawa: National Library of Canada. OCLC   32088965.
  5. 1 2 "Sir Peter Blake Trust". blakenz.org. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. Carson, Sally F; Page, Denis (1995). New Zealand seashore secrets. Auckland, N.Z.: Hodder Moa Beckett. ISBN   9780340575741. OCLC   154714914.
  7. Probert, Keith; Jillett, John B; Carson, Sally F (2005). Southern seas: discovering marine life at 46 [degrees] south. Dunedin, N.Z.: University of Otago Press. ISBN   9781877276965. OCLC   974660104.
  8. Carson, Sally F; New Zealand Marine Studies Centre (2014). Southern NZ, sandy & muddy shore guide. New Zealand Marine Studies Centre. ISBN   9780473275983. OCLC   872583197.
  9. Carson, Sally F; Morris, Rod (2017). Collins field guide to the New Zealand seashore. Collins. ISBN   9781775540106. OCLC   1057612910.
  10. Mladenov, Philip V.; Carson, Sally F.; Walker, Charles W. (25 April 1986). "Reproductive ecology of an obligately fissiparous population of the sea star Stephanasterias albula Stimpson" . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 96 (2): 155–175. doi:10.1016/0022-0981(86)90240-6. ISSN   0022-0981.
  11. McEdward, Larry R.; Carson, Sally F.; Chia, Fu-Shiang (January 1988). "Energetic Content of Eggs, Larvae, and Juveniles of Florometra serratissima and the Implications for the Evolution of Crinoid Life Histories" . International Journal of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development. 13 (1): 9–21. doi:10.1080/01688170.1988.10510338. ISSN   0168-8170.