Person

Truswell, Elizabeth Marchant (1941 - )

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Born
15 October 1941
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, Australia
Occupation
Palynologist
Website
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1848-6961

Summary

Elizabeth Truswell worked for the Bureau of Mineral Resources (later Australian Geological Survey Organisation) from 1973-1996, and was a leading authority in the application of palynology to problems in geology, palaeobotany and palaeoclimatology. In particular, for her distinguished work on the history of climate and vegetation in Australia and Antarctica during the Tertiary period, and for integrating this with palynological studies from deep-sea sediments.

She took early retirement from her position as a Chief Research Scientist to do a degree in Visual Arts at the Australian National University and now does landscape drawings where she aims to convey an interface between her scientific understanding of landscape and the landscape itself.

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Chronology

1962
Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Western Australia
1966
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Cambridge, UK
1966 - 1968
Career position - Palynologist, West Australian Petroleum, Perth
1968 - 1969
Career position - Geologist, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1969 - 1971
Career position - Palynologist, West Australian Petroleum
1971 - 1973
Career position - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Florida State University (position included participation in Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 28, December 1972 - March 1973)
1973 - 1985
Career position - Research Scientist in Palynology, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1985 -
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1985 - 1989
Career position - Senior Principal Research Scientist in Palynology, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1990 - 1996
Career position - Chief Research Scientist in Palynology, Bureau of Mineral Resources
1991 - 1999
Career position - Australian National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
1992 - 1998
Career position - Antarctic Science Advisory Committee
1997 -
Career position - Chief Research Scientist, Australian Geological Survey Organisation
1997 -
Career position - Visiting Fellow, Department of Geology, Australian National University (ANU)
2000
Education - Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours, Australian National University

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Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Articles

Books

  • Truswell, Elizabeth, A memory of ice : the Antarctic voyage of the Glomar Challenge (Canberra: ANU Press, ), 220 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Hill, R.; Truswell, E. M.; McLoughlin, S.; and Dettmann, M., 'The evolution of the Australian flora: Fossil evidence' in Flora of Australia, Volume 1, Orchard, Anthony E. & Thompson, Helen S., ed. (Melbourne: ABRS & CSIRO Publishing, 1999), pp. 251-320. Details

Journal Articles

  • Truswell, Elizabeth M., 'Encounters with James Dwight Dana', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 164 (2012), 23-7. Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

  • Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details

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