Biographical entry Cribb, Joan Winnifred (1930 - )

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, Lecture 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.

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Events

1949 -

Career position - Member of the Queensland Naturalists' Club

1952

Education - Bachelor of Science with Honours (BSc (Hons)) completed at the University of Queensland

1954

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Queensland

c. 1960 - c. 1989

Career position - Tutor and Lecturer (part-time) in Botany at the University of Queensland

1975

Career position - Wild Food in Australia published

1981

Career position - Wild Plants in Australia published

1981

Career position - Wild Medicine in Australia published

1985

Career position - Plants of the Great Barrier Reef and Adjacent Shores published

1992

Award - Queensland Natural History Award received

1994

Award - Australian Natural History Medallion received

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Published resources

Edited Books

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

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Cribb, J W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-616862. Details