Person

Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 - )

Born
1930
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Occupation
Botanist

Summary

Joan Winifred Cribb was awarded the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1994 for her contribution to botany. Her husband Alan, also a talented botanist, received the same award in 2001. Some time after marrying Alan, Lecturer of Botany, she joined him at the University of Queensland as a part-time tutor and lecturer. She retired from teaching in 1989. Together they studied many botanical specimens, especially algae, and authored several books (see chronology section). Joan Cribb also published widely without him. Her main area of expertise was gasteromycetes having described twenty-one new species, but also described fourteen new species of marine fungi. The fungal genus Cribbea was named in her honour.

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Chronology

1949 -
Career position - Member of the Queensland Naturalists' Club
1952
Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of Queensland
1954
Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Queensland
c. 1960 - c. 1989
Career position - Tutor and Lecturer (part-time) in Botany, University of Queensland
1974 - 1975
Career position - President, Queensland Naturalists' Club
1975
Career position - Wild Food in Australia published
1981
Career position - Wild Plants in Australia published
1981
Career position - Wild Medicine in Australia published
1984 - 1995
Career position - Editor, Queensland naturalist
1985
Career position - Plants of the Great Barrier Reef and Adjacent Shores published
1989
Life event - Retired from teaching
1992
Award - Queensland Natural History Award received
1994
Award - Australian Natural History Medallion received

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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

Books

  • Cribb, A. B.; and Cribb, J. W., Wild food in Australia (Sydney: Collins, 1974), 240 pp. Details
  • Cribb, A. B.; and Cribb, J. W., Wild medicine in Australia (Sydney: Collins, 1981), 228 pp. Details
  • Cribb, A. B.; and Cribb, J. w., Useful wild plants in Australia (Sydney: Collins, 1981), 269 pp. Details
  • Cribb, A. B.; and Cribb, J. W., Plant life of the Great Barrier Reef and adjacent shores (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1985), 294 pp. Details
  • Cribb, A. B.; and Cribb, J. W., Seaweeds of Queensland: a naturalist's guide (Brisbane: Queensland Naturalists' Club, 1996), 130 pp. Details

Edited Books

  • McKay, Judith ed., Brilliant Careers: Women Collectors and Illustrators in Queensland (Brisbane: Queensland Museum, 1997), 80 pp. Details

Journals

  • Cribb, Alan B.; Cribb, Joan W.; and Woodall, Peter F., eds., 'Queensland Naturalists', The Queensland Naturalist, 44 (1-3), 2006, 2-72 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Cribb, J. W., 'The contributions of the Queensland Naturalists' Club to natural history on Queensland', Queensland naturalist, 34 (1/2) (1996), 28-31. Details
  • Marks, E. N. and Crobb, J. W., 'A hundred years of natural history in Queensland through the life of the Queensland Naturalists' Club', Queensland naturalist, 44 (1/3) (2006), 3-7. Details

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