Vivienne Cassie Cooper
Vivienne Cassie Cooper | |
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| Born | Una Vivienne Dellow 29 September 1926 Auckland, New Zealand |
| Occupation(s) | Planktologist, botanist |
Una Vivienne Cassie Cooper MNZM (née Dellow, born 29 September 1926) is a New Zealand planktologist and botanist.
Early life
Cassie Cooper was born in Auckland. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Auckland, and her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington.[1][2]
Career
In 1957, she made the first regional study of phytoplankton in New Zealand. Later in life, she focused more on aquatic botany, and was appointed a research scientist on freshwater algae in the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). In her career, she wrote over fifty papers and several books, including Marine Phytoplankton in New Zealand Waters and Checklists of the Freshwater Diatoms of New Zealand. Cooper also published Micro Algae - Microscopic Marvels which she writes to appeal to a more popular readership.[3]
Cassie Cooper has garnered several awards and titles for her accomplishments, including an honorary research associateship by the Botany Department at University of Auckland and the Botany Division of DSIR, and an honorary life membership of the New Zealand Limnological Society and the New Zealand Marine Science Society.[1][2] In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to marine biology.[4] She was described as New Zealand's "leading expert" on diatoms.[3]
Cassie Cooper was a founding member of the Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany, the International Society of Diatomists, and the Asian Pacific Phycological Association.[2] She retired in 1986.[3]
The standard author abbreviation Cassie is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]
Personal life
In 1953, she married Richard Morrison Cassie, a fellow professor at the University of Auckland. They had two children. He died in 1974, but Cooper has continued her research to the present day (as of 2017).[1] She married Robert Cecil Cooper, botanist, in 1984.[6]
References
- ^ a b c Haines, Catherine (2001). International Women in Science. 130 Cremona Drive, P.O. Box 1911 Santa Barbara, California, 93116-1911: ABC-CLIO, Inc. pp. 57–58. ISBN 9781576070901.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ^ a b c "Vivienne Cassie Cooper". Australasian Society for Phycology and Aquatic Botany. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ a b c Collins, Simon (4 May 2002). "An endangered species". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 1997". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 2 June 1997. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Cassie.
- ^ Catharine M.C. Haines, 'Women in Science, p.57
