Wendy Nelson (masanin kimiyyar ruwa)

**Wendy Alison Nelson** MNZM masaninyar  kimiyyar ruwa ce  kasar  na New Zealand kuma kwararriya ce fannin ilimin halittu . Ita ce babbar hukuma ta kasar  New Zealand akan ciyawa .  Nelson yana da sha'awar musamman ga tsarin halittu na ciwan teku/ macroalgae na New Zealand, tare da bincike kan floristics, juyin halitta da phylogeny, da ilimin halittu, da nazarin tarihin rayuwa na algae na ruwa. Kwanan nan ta yi aiki a kan tsarin tsarin da ilmin halitta na algae na algae ciki har da coralline algae, rarrabawa da bambancin ruwan teku a cikin tashar jiragen ruwa da wuraren zama mai laushi, da kuma ruwan teku na Ross Sea da Balleny Islands . 

## Ilimi
An haifi Nelson a Dunedin .  Lokacin da take yarinya ta bayyana kanta a matsayin damuwa da tafkunan dutse, ta fara snorkeling tun tana da shekaru 12, kuma littafin Morton da Miller na 1968 *The New Zealand Seashore* ya yi tasiri sosai.   Ta kammala karatun BSc a Jami'ar Auckland a 1975, sannan ta yi BSc Hons a Jami'ar Victoria ta Wellington, kafin ta wuce Vancouver, Kanada, don yin digiri na uku a Jami'ar British Columbia . 

## Rayuwar sana'a
Nelson ta fara aiki a gidan tarihi na New Zealand a cikin 1970s, inda ta yi karatu tare da mai ba ta shawara Nancy Adams .  An nada ta mai kula da Botany a gidan tarihi na kasa lokacin da Nancy Adams ta yi ritaya a 1987.  Daga 1987 zuwa 2002, ta rubuta tarin tarin ciyawa na gidan kayan gargajiya na ƙasa, kuma ta ƙara kusan sabbin samfura 8,000.  Ta koma National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) a 2002, inda ita ce babbar masana kimiyya kuma shugabar shirye-shirye a fannin nazarin halittun ruwa, kuma a halin yanzu Farfesa ce a Kimiyyar Halittu a Jami'ar Auckland.  

Nelson yana da hannu a cikin ayyuka daban-daban da ke ƙididdigewa da kuma kwatanta algae na ruwa daga kewayen New Zealand.  Har ila yau, ta shiga cikin CARIM (Coastal acidification - rate, effects and management)  aikin bincike da Ma'aikatar Harkokin Kasuwancin Kasuwanci da Ayyuka . Aikin yana samar da sabon ilimi game da acidification na teku, don haɓaka kariya da sarrafa yanayin yanayin gabar tekun New Zealand.  A cikin 2019 ita ce babbar marubuciyar rahoton Ma'aikatar Tsare-tsare kan matsayin kiyayewa na macroalgae na New Zealand, wanda ya ware 609 na nau'ikan nau'ikan 938 a matsayin karancin bayanai kuma biyu a matsayin masu hadarin gaske.  Ta buga takardu sama da 185 da aka bita da kuma littattafai huɗu, ɗaya a matsayin edita. 

Nelson ya kasance memba na Hukumar Kula da Karewar New Zealand tsawon shekaru takwas.  An sake nada ta a ranar 7 ga Agusta 2020 don ƙarin wa'adin shekaru uku.  A cikin 2015 ta jagoranci rahoton Royal Society of New Zealand game da "Tarin Taxonomic Taxonomic na New Zealand."   Ta kasance shekara biyu shugabar Ƙungiyar Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararrun Ƙwararru ta Duniya.  

## Girmamawa da kyaututtuka
A cikin 1996, an nada Nelson wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Kimiyya ta Zonta.  Kyautar ta hada da 'tikitin jirgin sama na duniya' don ziyartar herbariums a Turai. 

A cikin Girmamawa na Ranar Haihuwar Sarauniya ta 2008, an nada Nelson Memba na Tsarin Girmama na New Zealand, don hidima ga yanayin ruwa. 

A cikin 2016, Nelson ya lashe lambar yabo ta Royal Society of New Zealand 's Hutton Medal, wanda aka ba shi kyauta don kyakkyawan aiki da wani mai bincike a New Zealand ya yi a duniya, tsire-tsire da kimiyyar dabbobi.  Kungiyar Royal Society ta yi sharhi: "Ta kara fadada ilimin ciwan teku na New Zealand da kuma dangantakar juyin halitta tsakanin ciyawa a duniya. Ta kuma yi yakin yaki da kwari da kuma ci gaba da fahimtar mahimmancin muhalli na ciyawa na murjani da kuma raunin su ga sauyin yanayi ."  

A cikin 2017, an zaɓi Nelson a matsayin ɗayan Royal Society Te Apārangi's " mata 150 a cikin kalmomi 150 ", suna murnar gudummawar mata ga ilimi a New Zealand. 

A cikin 2020 Nelson ya sami lambar yabo ta Nancy Burbidge ta Australasia Systematic Botany Society, babbar girmamawa ta al'umma.  Labararta nancy T Burbade, mai taken "Sabon hangen nesa game da sanin wani da kuma rarraba wadanda ba 'yan asalin kasar New Zealand" ba, an bayar da taron' yan asalin kasar da ba a daɗe ba saboda cutar ta COVID . 

## Eponymity
Nelson ya ba da suna kuma ya kwatanta taxa 70, kuma yana da biyu masu suna bayan ta: 

* *[[Skeletonella nelsoniae]]* Millar da De Clerck, 2007
* *[[Wendya incisa]]* D'Archino da Lin, 2016 

## Ayyukan da aka zaɓa

* Nelson, WA (2013, ed. 2020). *New Zealand Seaweeds: jagorar da aka kwatanta* . Wellington, NZ: Te Papa Press.
* Nelson, WA (2012). "Phylum Rhodophyta: Red algae." A cikin DP Gordon (Ed.) *New Zealand ƙididdiga na bambancin halittu.* *Juzu'i na uku.* *Masarautar Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi* (pp.&nbsp;327-346). Christchurch, NZ: Canterbury University Press.
* Nelson, WA, Bilewitch, JP, & Sutherland, JE (2018). "Rarraba nau'in *Zonaria* (Dictyotales: Phaeophyceae) a New Zealand, da bayanin *Zonaria cryptica* sp. nov daga Stewart Island." *New Zealand Journal of Botany* 1-12. 10.1080/0028825X.2018.1478310
* Nelson, WA, Sutherland, JE (2018). " *Prasionema heeschiae* sp. nov. (Prasiolales, Chlorophyta) daga tsibirin Campbell, New Zealand: rikodin farko na *Prasionema* a kudancin hemisphere." *Jaridar Turai na Ilimin Halitta,* **53** (2), 198-207. 10.1080/09670262.2018.1423577
* Nelson, W., & Sutherland, J. (2017). *"Predaea rosa* sp. nov. (Nemastomatales, Rhodophyta): Wani nau'in yanayi mai sanyi daga kudancin New Zealand." *Phycologia,* **56** (2), 167-175. 10.2216/16-81.1
* Nelson, WA, & Dalen, J. (2016). "New Zealand Rhodymeniales: Sabon Suna don *Gloioderma saccatum* (J. Agardh) Kylin." *Cryptogamie, Algologie,* **37** (3), 171-178. 10.7872/crya/v37.iss3.2016.171

## Manazarta