Deirdre Hart

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Deirdre Hart
Hart in 2018
AwardsZonta Science Award (2008)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of New South Wales
ThesisEco-sedimentological environments of an inter-tidal reef platform, Warraber Island, Torres Strait (2003)
Doctoral advisorRoger McLean, Graham Symonds, Paul Kench
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Deirdre Hart is a New Zealand geographer, and as of 2022 is a full professor at the University of Canterbury. She uses multidisciplinary approaches to research the physical, human and biological processes and interactions in coastal environments. In 2008 she was awarded the Zonta Science Medal.

Academic career

Hart was educated at

PhD titled Eco-sedimentological environments of an inter-tidal reef platform, Warraber Island, Torres Strait at the University of New South Wales.[2][3] Hart returned to teach at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2022.[4] Her research focuses on process and interactions in coastal environments, and includes reef sediments, river mouths, and hazard research.[5]

Hart asks her students to write Wikipedia articles as teaching assignments, after having initially banned students from using the online encyclopedia.[6]

Awards

As the top geographer master's student in her year, Hart won the Eileen Fairbairn Award.[2]

In 2008, Hart was awarded the Zonta Science Prize.[1] The award's convenor said "We look for an outstanding woman scientist able to use the Award to further her career, a person who can be an advocate for women in science but who also contributes to her community. We want a role model for other women scientists who will demonstrate the rewards of entering into the science field and Deirdre certainly shows all these attributes."[1] Hart used the awarded flights to attend the 2008 International Coral Reef Symposium in Florida.[1]

Selected works

  • Dave Kelly; Deirdre E. Hart; Robert B. Allen (January 2001). "Evaluating the Wind Pollination Benefits of Mast Seeding".
    Wikidata Q58462945
    .
  • Deirdre E. Hart; Paul S. Kench (15 November 2006). "Carbonate production of an emergent reef platform, Warraber Island, Torres Strait, Australia".
    Wikidata Q56386751
    .
  • Wikidata Q56386754
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  • Matthew W. Hughes (1 March 2015). "The sinking city: Earthquakes increase flood hazard in Christchurch, New Zealand". GSA Today: 4–10.
    Wikidata Q57870980
    .
  • Hart, D. E. (2007). "River-Mouth Lagoon Dynamics on Mixed Sand and Gravel Barrier Coasts".
    Wikidata Q115584091
    .
  • Robert Brander; Paul S. Kench; Deirdre Hart (June 2004). "Spatial and temporal variations in wave characteristics across a reef platform, Warraber Island, Torres Strait, Australia".
    Wikidata Q115584130
    .

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Geographer Wins Zonta Science Award". www.scoop.co.nz. 28 May 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Deirdre Hart". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  3. Wikidata Q115581219
  4. ^ "Thirteen new professors promoted at UC". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 3 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Member Directory: Deirdre Hart". NZ Coastal Society. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
  6. ^ Booker, Jarrod (8 June 2010). "Lecturer relents on students' use of Wikipedia for research". NZ Herald. Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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