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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=Women in Science}}</ref>.
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=Women in Science}}</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/>
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>


==Discoveries==
==Discoveries==
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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>
* 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]] and in July 2010 was appointed as its inaugural Vice-President for Science, Technology and Medicine.
* Founding Fellow of the [[Learned Society of Wales]] and in July 2010 was appointed as its inaugural Vice-President for Science, Technology and Medicine.

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

Early life

Professor Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales and but spent much of her time on Gower, where her parents had a bungalow[2].

Career

Edwards's work has centered 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.

Professor Edwards is a research professor at the University of Cardiff in the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences[4].

She also has links with China, consulting for the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and working on fossils from that country.[5]

Discoveries

Among Edwards's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia,[6] the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants,[7] and very early liverwort-like plants.[8] The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.[9] She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus,[10] Tortilicaulis[11] and Prototaxites.[12] She is the author or co-author of a considerable number of botanical names of fossil plants, such as Danziella D.Edwards (2006)[13] and Demersatheca C.-S. Li & D.Edwards (1996).[14]

The standard author abbreviation D.Edwards is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[15]

Distinctions

References

  1. ^ Index of Botanists, Harvard University Herbarium, retrieved 2011-04-07, entry for D. Edwards
  2. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20120327.shtml
  3. ^ a b c Professor Dianne Edwards FRS - The first plants
  4. ^ Women in Science http://womeninscience.net/?page_id=134. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ a b Professor Dianne Edwards
  6. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  7. ^ Edwards, D.; Kerp, H.; Hass, H. (1998). "Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Botany. 49 (Special Issue): 255–278. doi:10.1093/jexbot/49.suppl_1.255.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ 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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ Edwards, D. (1979). "A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed". Palaeontology. 22: 23–52.
  12. ^ Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1988.tb02461.x instead.
  13. ^ 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
  14. ^ 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 {{citation}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ International Plant Names Index.  D.Edwards.
  16. ^ "Lyell Medal winners". The Geological Society.

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