Janet Mary Grieve , also known as Janet Bradford-Grieve and Janet Bradford, is a New Zealand biological oceanographer, born in 1940. She is researcher emerita at the

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. She has researched extensively on marine

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and biological productivity. She was president of both the

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(1998–2000)Gregory, G., 2016. A better way: New Zealand Association of Scientists 1922–2016. New Zealand Science Review, 73(2), pp.42–54. and the World Association of Copepodologists (2008–11).

Education and early career

Her PhD, supervised by George Knox at the

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, developed new observations in copepod taxonomy but also produced insights into the processes affecting zooplankton in Kaikōura submarine canyon. Her pioneering research in this canyon provides a baseline for the biological and physical changes associated with the

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. Immediately after her PhD she joined the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute, a section within the New Zealand

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as a scientist. She broke this with a period as a visiting scholar at the

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, copepod taxonomy for a time (1970–73). She participated in the Ross Ice Shelf Project expedition to the central

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. The team successfully bored through the ice shelf in 1977 to retrieve data and samples in the ice shelf cavity. She continued with the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute and remained when it was absorbed into

.Thompson R-M, The First Forty Years, New Zealand Oceanographic Institute: Lives and Times, 1954–1994. 40th Jubilee Committee, 1994.

Science and impact

Publishing under surnames Grieve, Bradford and Bradford-Grieve, she has made a significant contribution to the fields of biological oceanography in New Zealand and internationally. She is responsible for some of the first measurements of open ocean productivity in New Zealand waters. Her research has extended from the subtropics to the Antarctic/Southern Ocean. She has researched topics such as ocean food webs and ecology, and is regarded as the global expert on copepod biosystematics. Grieve was a key researcher involved in the environmental survey work that underpinned and guided the development of the Maui oil and gas production facilities within the Taranaki Bight. This was one of the first marine developments to consider detailed environmental management. In addition she was also on the Task Force group responsible for reviewing the NZ Fisheries Legislation in 1991–92.

Science leadership

She was Manager of the Marine and Freshwater Division of the NZOI, DSIR (1989–91). She was President of the

(1998–2000). In addition she was President of the

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(2008–11).

Honours and awards

In 1990, Grieve was awarded the

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. In the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed an

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit () is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have r ...

, for services to marine science. In 1995, she received the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Award (1995). In 2017, Grieve was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "

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", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.

Publications

* ''Systematics and ecology of New Zealand central east coast plankton sampled at Kaikoura'', 1972 * ''New parasitic Choniostomatidae (Copepoda) mainly from Antarctic and Subantarctic Ostracoda'', 1975 * ''The marine fauna of New Zealand : pelagic calanoid copepods : families Euchaetidae, Phaennidae, Scolecithricidae, Diaixidae, and Tharybidae'', 1980 * ''New Zealand region primary productivity, surface'', 1980 * ''New Zealand region, zooplankton biomass 0-200m.'', 1980 * ''The marine fauna of New Zealand. Megacalanidae, Calanidae, Paracalanidae, Mecynoceridae, Eucalanidae, Spinocalanidae, Clausocalanidae '', 1994 * ''The marine fauna of New Zealand : Pelagic Copepoda : Poecilostomatoida:Oncaeidae'', 1995 * ''The marine fauna of New Zealand. Bathypontiidae, Arietellidae, Augaptilidae, Heterorhabdidae, Lucicutiidae, Metridinidae, Phyllopodidae, Centropagidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Temoridae, Candaciidae, Pontellidae, Sulcanidae, Acartiidae, Tortanidae'', 1999

References

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