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'''Dianne Edwards''' [[CBE]] [[ScD]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]] [[Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales|FLSW]] [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (born 1942<ref>{{Citation |title=Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |url=http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanist_index.html |accessdate=2011-04-07 }}, entry for [http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=143600 D. Edwards]</ref>) is a [[palaeobotanist]], who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
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'''Professor Dianne Edwards''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]], [[Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|FRSE]], [[Fellow of the Linnean Society|FLS]], [[Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales|FLSW]] (born 1942<ref>{{Citation |title=Entry: D. Edwards. Index of Botanists |publisher=Harvard University Herbarium |url=http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=43261 |accessdate=16 December 2017 }}</ref>) is a [[palaeobotanist]], who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.


==Early life==
==Early life==


Professor Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales. She spent much of her time at her parents' bungalow in Gower.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Prof. Dianne Edwards|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml|website = BBC - Wales - Radio Wales - Science Cafe|accessdate = 2015-10-29|last = Walton|first = Adam|date = 27 March 2012}}</ref>
Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales, and spent much of her time at her parents' bungalow on the [[Gower Peninsula]].<ref>{{Cite web|title = Prof. Dianne Edwards|url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml|website = BBC Wales Radio Wales Science Cafe|accessdate = 29 October 2015|last = Walton|first = Adam|date = 27 March 2012}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Edwards's work has centered on early plant fossils, the majority of which have been retrieved from the UK.<ref name=RoyalSoc/> Her interest in early plants was initiated after she studied plant fossils preserved in three dimensions in the mineral [[pyrite]] (fools' gold);.<ref name=RoyalSoc/>
Edwards' work has centred on early plant fossils, the majority of which have been retrieved from the UK.<ref name=RoyalSoc/> Her interest in early plants was initiated after she studied plant fossils preserved in three dimensions in the mineral [[pyrite]] (fools' gold).<ref name=RoyalSoc/>


Much of her later work has centred on the [[Rhynie chert]] and charcoalified fossils, large and microscopic, from the Welsh borderlands and south Wales.
Much of her later work has centred on the [[Rhynie chert]] and charcoalified fossils, large and microscopic, from the Welsh borderlands and [[South Wales]].


Professor Edwards is a research professor at the [[University of Cardiff]] in the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://womeninscience.net/?page_id=134|website = WISRNet, Women in Science Research Network|title = Professor Dianne Edwards CBE PhD, ScD(Cantab) FRSE, FLS, FLSE, FLSW, FRS|date = 2015}}</ref>
Edwards is a Distinguished [[Professor|Research Professor]], and former Head of School within the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at [[Cardiff University]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/81680-edwards-dianne|title=Professor Dianne Edwards - People - Cardiff University|work=Cardiff University|access-date=2018-09-11|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://womeninscience.net/?page_id=134|website = WISRNet, Women in Science Research Network|title = Professor Dianne Edwards CBE PhD, ScD(Cantab) FRSE, FLS, FLSE, FLSW, FRS|year = 2015}}</ref>


She also has links with China, consulting for the [[Beijing Museum of Natural History]], and working on fossils from that country.<ref name=CardiffUni>[http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/inter/chinacentre/members/edwards/index.html Professor Dianne Edwards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
She is also a Fellow of the [[Royal Society]], Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], an [[honorary Fellow]] at the [[Swansea University|University of Wales, Swansea]], a Corresponding Member of the [[Botanical Society of America]], and has links with [[China]], consulting for the [[Beijing Museum of Natural History]], and working on fossils from that country.<ref name=CardiffUni>[http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/for/prospective/inter/chinacentre/members/edwards/index.html Professor Dianne Edwards<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>


==Discoveries==
==Discoveries==
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Among Edwards's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in ''[[Cooksonia]]'',<ref name=Edwards1992>{{cite journal
Among Edwards's most notable works, are the discovery of vascular tissue in ''[[Cooksonia]]'',<ref name=Edwards1992>{{cite journal
| author = Edwards, D.; Davies, K. L.; Axe, L.
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Davies, K. L. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 1992
| year = 1992
| title = A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant ''Cooksonia''
| title = A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant ''Cooksonia''
| journal = Nature
| journal = Nature
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| pages = 683–685
| pages = 683–685
| doi = 10.1038/357683a0
| doi = 10.1038/357683a0
|bibcode = 1992Natur.357..683E }}</ref> the description and analysis of [[stomata]] in early land plants,<ref name=Edwards1998>{{cite journal
|bibcode = 1992Natur.357..683E |s2cid=4264332 }}</ref> the description and analysis of [[stomata]] in early land plants,<ref name=Edwards1998>{{cite journal
| author = Edwards, D.; Kerp, H.; Hass, H.
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Kerp, H. |author3=Hass, H. | year = 1998
| year = 1998
| title = Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach
| title = Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach
| journal = Journal of Experimental Botany
| journal = Journal of Experimental Botany
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| pages = 255–278
| pages = 255–278
| doi = 10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255
| doi = 10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255
}}</ref> and very early liverwort-like plants.<ref name=Edwards1995>{{cite journal
| url = http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/49/suppl_1/255.pdf
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Duckett, J. G. |author3=Richardson, J. B. | year = 1995
}}</ref> and very early liverwort-like plants.<ref name=Edwards1995>{{cite journal
| author = Edwards, D.; Duckett, J. G.; Richardson, J. B.
| year = 1995
| title = Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants
| title = Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants
| journal = Nature
| journal = Nature
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| pages = 635–636
| pages = 635–636
| doi = 10.1038/374635a0
| doi = 10.1038/374635a0
|bibcode = 1995Natur.374..635E |s2cid=4361385 }}</ref> The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.<ref name=Glasspool2004>{{cite journal
| url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v374/n6523/abs/374635a0.html
|author1=Glasspool, I. J. |author2=Edwards, D. |author3=Axe, L. | year = 2004
|bibcode = 1995Natur.374..635E }}</ref> The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.<ref name=Glasspool2004>{{cite journal
| author = Glasspool, I. J.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L.
| year = 2004
| title = Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire
| title = Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire
| journal = Geology
| journal = Geology
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| pages = 381–383
| pages = 381–383
| doi = 10.1130/G20363.1
| doi = 10.1130/G20363.1
| url = http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/32/5/381
| bibcode=2004Geo....32..381G
| bibcode=2004Geo....32..381G
}}</ref>
}}</ref>
She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as ''[[Nematothallus]]'',<ref name=Edwards1984>{{cite journal
She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as ''[[Nematothallus]]'',<ref name=Edwards1984>{{cite journal
| author = Edwards, D.; Rose, V.
|author1=Edwards, D. |author2=Rose, V. | year = 1984
| year = 1984
| title = Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma
| title = Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma
| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
| volume = 88
| volume = 88
| issue = 1-2
| issue = 1–2
| pages = 35–54
| pages = 35–54
| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x
| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x
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}}</ref> and ''[[Prototaxites]]''.<ref name=Burgess1988>{{Cite journal | first2 = D.| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society| volume = 97| pages = 189–203| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x| last2 = Edwards| title = A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to ''Prototaxites'' Dawson | first1 = N. D.| year = 1988| last1 = Burgess| issue = 2}}</ref>
}}</ref> and ''[[Prototaxites]]''.<ref name=Burgess1988>{{Cite journal | first2 = D.| journal = Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society| volume = 97| pages = 189–203| doi = 10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x| last2 = Edwards| title = A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to ''Prototaxites'' Dawson | first1 = N. D.| year = 1988| last1 = Burgess| issue = 2}}</ref>


She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as ''[[Danziella]]'' <small>D.Edwards (2006)</small><ref>{{Citation |last=Edwards |first=Dianne |year=2006 |title=''Danziella artesiana'', a new name for ''Zosterophyllum artesianum'' from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=142 |issue=3-4 |pages=93–101 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008 }}</ref> and ''[[Demersatheca]]'' <small>C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996)</small>.<ref>{{Citation |last=Li |first=C.-S. |last2=Edwards |first2=D. |year=1996 |title=''Demersatheca'' Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=93 |issue=1-4 |pages=77–88 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4 |lastauthoramp=yes }}</ref>
She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as ''[[Danziella]]'' <small>D.Edwards (2006)</small><ref>{{Citation |last=Edwards |first=Dianne |year=2006 |title=''Danziella artesiana'', a new name for ''Zosterophyllum artesianum'' from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=142 |issue=3–4 |pages=93–101 |doi=10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008 }}</ref> and ''[[Demersatheca]]'' <small>C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996)</small>.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Li |first1=C.-S. |last2=Edwards |first2=D. |year=1996 |title=''Demersatheca'' Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China |journal=Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology |volume=93 |issue=1–4 |pages=77–88 |doi=10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4 |name-list-style=amp }}</ref>


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==Distinctions==
==Distinctions==


* Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1996.<ref name=RoyalSoc>[http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1511 Professor Dianne Edwards FRS - The first plants<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* Elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1996.<ref name=RoyalSoc>[http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1511 Professor Dianne Edwards FRS The first plants<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*President of the [[Palaeontological Association]], 1996-1998.<ref>{{Cite book|title=PalAss at 60|publisher=The Palaeontological Association|year=2017|url=https://www.palass.org/sites/default/files/media/association/palass_at_60.pdf|pages=34}}</ref>
*Awarded the [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] for Services to [[Botany]] in 1999.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/55513/supplement/1|title=No. 55513|date=12 June 1999|work=The London Gazette (Supplement)|page=8}}</ref>
* Trustee of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], London.<ref name=CardiffUni/>
* Trustee of the [[Natural History Museum, London|Natural History Museum]], London.<ref name=CardiffUni/>
* 2004 winner of the [[Lyell Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lyell Medal winners|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Award-Winners-Since-1831/Lyell-Medal|website=The Geological Society}}</ref>
* 2004 winner of the [[Lyell Medal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Lyell Medal winners|url=https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/About/History/Award-Winners-Since-1831/Lyell-Medal|website=The Geological Society}}</ref>
* Founding Fellow of the [[Learned Society of Wales]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding Fellows|url=http://learnedsocietywales.ac.uk/node/13|website=Learned Society of Wales|publisher=Learned Society of Wales|accessdate=15 July 2015}}</ref> and in July 2010 was appointed as its inaugural Vice-President for Science, Technology and Medicine.
* Founding Fellow of the [[Learned Society of Wales]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Founding Fellows|url=http://learnedsocietywales.ac.uk/node/13|website=Learned Society of Wales|publisher=Learned Society of Wales|accessdate=15 July 2015}}</ref> and in July 2010 was appointed as its inaugural Vice-President for Science, Technology and Medicine.
*President of the [[Linnean Society of London]], 2012–2015.
* PhD ''honoris causa'' at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden, since 2014.
* PhD ''[[honoris causa]]'' at the Faculty of Science and Technology at [[Uppsala University]], Sweden, since 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Hans Rosling one of four new honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden|url = http://www.uu.se/en/research/grants-awards/article/?id=2833&area=2,12,16&typ=artikel&lang=en|website = uu.se|access-date = 3 February 2016}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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Latest revision as of 08:27, 13 September 2024

Professor Dianne Edwards CBE, FRS, FRSE, FLS, FLSW (born 1942[1]) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.

Early life

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Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales, and spent much of her time at her parents' bungalow on the Gower Peninsula.[2]

Career

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Edwards' work has centred on early plant fossils, the majority of which have been retrieved from the UK.[3] Her interest in early plants was initiated after she studied plant fossils preserved in three dimensions in the mineral pyrite (fools' gold).[3]

Much of her later work has centred on the Rhynie chert and charcoalified fossils, large and microscopic, from the Welsh borderlands and South Wales.

Edwards is a Distinguished Research Professor, and former Head of School within the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, at Cardiff University.[4][5]

She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an honorary Fellow at the University of Wales, Swansea, a Corresponding Member of the Botanical Society of America, and has links with China, consulting for the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and working on fossils from that country.[6]

Discoveries

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Among Edwards's most notable works, are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia,[7] the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants,[8] and very early liverwort-like plants.[9] The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.[10] She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus,[11] Tortilicaulis[12] and Prototaxites.[13]

She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006)[14] and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).[15]

Distinctions

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References

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  1. ^ Entry: D. Edwards. Index of Botanists, Harvard University Herbarium, retrieved 16 December 2017
  2. ^ Walton, Adam (27 March 2012). "Prof. Dianne Edwards". BBC – Wales – Radio Wales – Science Cafe. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Professor Dianne Edwards FRS – The first plants
  4. ^ "Professor Dianne Edwards - People - Cardiff University". Cardiff University. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  5. ^ "Professor Dianne Edwards CBE PhD, ScD(Cantab) FRSE, FLS, FLSE, FLSW, FRS". WISRNet, Women in Science Research Network. 2015.
  6. ^ a b Professor Dianne Edwards
  7. ^ Edwards, D.; Davies, K. L.; Axe, L. (1992). "A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia". Nature. 357 (6380): 683–685. Bibcode:1992Natur.357..683E. doi:10.1038/357683a0. S2CID 4264332.
  8. ^ Edwards, D.; Kerp, H.; Hass, H. (1998). "Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach". Journal of Experimental Botany. 49 (Special Issue): 255–278. doi:10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255.
  9. ^ Edwards, D.; Duckett, J. G.; Richardson, J. B. (1995). "Hepatic characters in the earliest land plants". Nature. 374 (6523): 635–636. Bibcode:1995Natur.374..635E. doi:10.1038/374635a0. S2CID 4361385.
  10. ^ Glasspool, I. J.; Edwards, D.; Axe, L. (2004). "Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire". Geology. 32 (5): 381–383. Bibcode:2004Geo....32..381G. doi:10.1130/G20363.1.
  11. ^ Edwards, D.; Rose, V. (1984). "Cuticles of Nematothallus: a further enigma". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 88 (1–2): 35–54. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1984.tb01563.x.
  12. ^ Edwards, D. (1979). "A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed". Palaeontology. 22: 23–52.
  13. ^ Burgess, N. D.; Edwards, D. (1988). "A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 97 (2): 189–203. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x.
  14. ^ Edwards, Dianne (2006), "Danziella artesiana, a new name for Zosterophyllum artesianum from the Lower Devonian of Artois, northern France", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 142 (3–4): 93–101, doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2006.04.008
  15. ^ Li, C.-S. & Edwards, D. (1996), "Demersatheca Li et Edwards, gen. nov., a new genus of early land plants from the Lower Devonian, Yunnan Province, China", Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 93 (1–4): 77–88, doi:10.1016/0034-6667(95)00120-4
  16. ^ International Plant Names Index.  D.Edwards.
  17. ^ PalAss at 60 (PDF). The Palaeontological Association. 2017. p. 34.
  18. ^ "No. 55513". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1999. p. 8.
  19. ^ "Lyell Medal winners". The Geological Society.
  20. ^ "Founding Fellows". Learned Society of Wales. Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  21. ^ "Hans Rosling one of four new honorary doctors at Faculty of Science and Technology – Uppsala University, Sweden". uu.se. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
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