Person

Ramsay, Helen P. (1928 - )

AM

Born
1928
Occupation
Bryologist

Summary

Helen Ramsay is one of Australia's foremost bryologists, focussing on cytology, taxonomy and distribution checklists, particularly of Bryaceae, Sematophyllaceae and Macromitrium In her research she collaborated with Australian and overseas bryologists, and she is renowned as a mentor for younger scientists. Her publications include censuses of the mosses of New South Wales, the ACT and Lord Howe Island. Ramsay has made significant collections of Australian mosses: these are in the National Herbarium of New South Wales and the John Ray Herbarium at the University of New South Wales.

Details

Chronology

1966
Education - PhD, University of Sydney
1966 - 1967
Career position - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Bangor University, Wales
1968 - 1984
Career event - Tutor (later Senior Lecturer) in botany, University of New South Wales
1979 - 1991
Career position - Co-editor, Australasian Bryological Newsletter
1984
Life event - Retired
2019
Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to plant science

Related Corporate Bodies

Published resources

Book Sections

  • Ramsay, H., 'History of research on Australian mosses' in Flora of Australia volume 51 (Mosses 1), McCarthy, P. M., ed. (Canberra & Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2006), pp. 1-19. Details

Conference Papers

  • Ramsay, H.P.; and Seur, Julie, 'Type Specimens of Bryophytes in Australian Herbaria', in History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988 edited by Short, P.S. (Melbourne: Australian Systematic Botany Society, 1990), pp. 247-252.. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dalton, P. J. (editor), ' A special issue in honour of Ilma Grace Stone to commemorate the occasion of her 80th birthday', Australasian bryological newsletter 29:1-8, 29, 1-8. https://www.utas.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/766457/ABN_29.pdf. Details
  • Dalton, P. J. ed., 'Helen Ramsay - a very special person', Australasian Bryological Newsletter, 49 (2004), 1-8. Details
  • Downs, Katherine; and Ramsay, Helen, 'Clergyman, bryologist, advocate: Reverend W.W. Watts in the Richmond River district', Australasian bryological newsletter, 73 (2019), 6-9. Details
  • Downs, Katherine; and Ramsay, Helen, 'Clergyman, bryologist, advocate: Reverend W.W. Watts in the Richmond River district (part two, continued)', Australasian bryological newsletter, 74 (2020), 7-10. Details
  • Ramsay, H. P., 'William Walter Watts, 1856 - 1920', Australasian Bryological Newsletter, 39 (1998), 1-4. Details
  • Ramsay, Helen, 'Heinar Streimann 1938-2001', Australasian Bryological Newsletter, 45 (2002), 206. Details
  • Ramsay, Helen P., 'Contributions of Rev. W. W. Watts F.L.S. to Australian botany', Taxon, 29 (4) (1980), 455-69. Details
  • Renner, Matt; Ramsay, Helen; West, Carol; Braggins, John; Downing, Alison; Downing, Kevin; de Lange, Peter; and Cairns, Andi, 'Tributes to Dr Elizabeth Brown', Australasian Bryological Newsletter, 64 (2014), 2-16. Details
  • Smith, Val, 'Biographical sketch - Helen Patricia Ramsay (1928 - )', New Zealand Botanical Society newsletter, 143 (2021), 9-10. Details

Resources

Helen Cohn

EOAS ID: biogs/P005604b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by the Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 February (Kooyang - Gariwerd calendar)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#kooyang
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005604b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260