| Amanda Black | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Black in 2019 | |
| Awards | Rutherford Fellowship (2021) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Lincoln University |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | Ron McLaren, Suzie Reichman, Tom Speir, Leo Condron |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Lincoln University |
Amanda Black is a New Zealand soil chemist who as of 2023 is a full professor at Lincoln University, specialising in soil health and biosecurity. She has worked on kauri dieback and integration of matauranga Māori into science.
Early life and education
Black is of Tūhoe, Whakatōhea and Te Whanau a Āpanui descent. After a master's degree at the University of Otago, Black completed a PhD titled Bioavailability of cadmium, copper, nickel and zinc in soils treated with biosolids and metal salts at Lincoln University in 2010. Her work was supervised by Ron McLaren, Suzie Reichman, Tom Speir and Leo Condron.
Academic career
Black joined the staff at the university, rising to full professor in 2022. She was appointed co-director of the Bioprotection Aotearoa Centre of Research Excellence when it was refunded in 2020.
Honours and awards
Black received a Māori Television Matariki Award, the Te Tupu-ā-Rangi for Health and Science in 2019. She also received the Ministry for Primary Industries Biosecurity Award for an Emerging Leader in 2018. In 2021 Black was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for the project Genomes to giants: restoring resilient soil ecosystems in kauri forests. This project aimed "to reconstruct the kauri soil ecosystem using soil DNA and integrat matauranga Māori of the ngāhere forest, to build whakapapa of the soil." In 2024 Black was awarded Lincoln University's 2024 Critic and Conscience Award.
Selected works
- Amanda Black; Gary Garner; Melanie Mark-Shadbolt; Jovana Balanovic; Edith MacDonald; Ocean Mercier; Janine Wright (14 December 2021). "Indigenous peoples' attitudes and social acceptability of invasive species control in New Zealand". Pacific Conservation Biology. doi:10.1071/PC21049. ISSN 1038-2097. Wikidata Q113281346.
- Amanda Black; Melanie Mark-Shadbolt; Gary Garner; et al. (20 February 2019). "How an Indigenous community responded to the incursion and spread of myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii) that threatens culturally significant plant species – a case study from New Zealand". Pacific Conservation Biology. 25 (4): 348. doi:10.1071/PC18052. ISSN 1038-2097. Wikidata Q113281350.
- Alexa-Kate Byers; Leo Condron; Maureen O'Callaghan; Nick Waipara; Amanda Black (30 August 2021). "Identification of Burkholderia and Penicillium isolates from kauri (Agathis australis) soils that inhibit the mycelial growth of Phytophthora agathidicida". New Zealand Plant Protection. 74 (1): 42–54. doi:10.30843/NZPP.2021.74.11736. ISSN 1175-9003. Wikidata Q117306170.
- R. E. Bradshaw; S. E. Bellgard; A. Black; et al. (6 November 2019). "Phytophthora agathidicida : research progress, cultural perspectives and knowledge gaps in the control and management of kauri dieback in New Zealand". Plant Pathology. 69 (1): 3–16. doi:10.1111/PPA.13104. ISSN 0032-0862. Wikidata Q93002286.
References
- ^ "Congratulations to our newly appointed professors :: Lincoln University". www.lincoln.ac.nz. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- Black, Amanda (2010). Bioavailability of cadmium, copper, nickel and zinc in soils treated with biosolids and metal salts (PhD thesis). Lincoln University. hdl:10182/1561.
- Lincoln University. "Professor Amanda Black, profile". researchers.lincoln.ac.nz. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- Māori Television (2020). "Te Tupu-ā-Rangi Award for Health and Science".
- "Amanda Black". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 8 April 2023.
- Nealon, Kelly (12 December 2024). "Lincoln Professor receives 2024 Critic and Conscience Award". Inside Government NZ. Retrieved 13 December 2024.