Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Clark
New Zealand zoologist and botanical collector
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen Elizabeth Shearburn Rotman was a New Zealand expert on echinoderms, specifically starfish. She was born in Napier in 1936 and attended Nelson Park Primary School and Woodford House school . Education Her association with echinoderms began while developing a M.Sc. topic in Zoology at Victoria University in Wellington, supervised by Dr. H. B. Fell. This was after being told by a professor that he was "not having women in my department". This led to a focus on Southern Ocean asteroids . She completed her MSc at VUW in 1961 and her PhD was conferred at the same institution 1969–70. The PhD thesis title was “Revision of the Southern Hemisphere Asteroidea Order Paxillosida” and her first scientific publication was on Anareaster, a new genus of asteroid from Antarctica. This early work formed the basis of a modern interactive guide to the starfish of the Ross Sea.
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