| Cate Macinnis-Ng | |
| Thesis1 Title: | In situ monitoring of toxic pollutant impacts on the photosynthesis of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers |
| Thesis1 Year: | 2002 |
Catriona M. O. Macinnis-Ng is a New Zealand ecologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the effects of climate change, especially drought, on plants. She has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, the Roger Slack Award, and the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring.
Macinnis-Ng completed her undergraduate training in Sydney, before undertaking a PhD titled In situ monitoring of toxic pollutant impacts on the photosynthesis of the seagrass Zostera capricorni Aschers at the University of Technology Sydney.[1] Macinnis-Ng held several research fellowships in Australia, before returning to New Zealand with her family in 2010.[2] She joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2015, rising to full professor in 2024.
Macinnis-Ng was president of the New Zealand Ecological Society from 2017 to 2019. During her presidency she instituted a mentoring scheme that had mentored more than fifty members by 2023.[3] Macinnis-Ng also mentors within the University of Auckland's Women in Science Programme, and serves on the Royal Society Te Apārangi Council.[4]
Macinnis-Ng is a principal investigator in the Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence. She was awarded a Marsden Fast-Start Grant in 2012 to research the ecophysiology of kauri trees, with respect to possible effects of drought and climate change.[5]
In 2014 Macinnis-Ng was awarded a University of Auckland Early Career Research Excellence Award. She was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015 to research the impact of drought on native forest ecosystems.[6] She was awarded the Roger Slack Award in 2016 by the New Zealand Society of Plant Biologists.[7] In 2023 she received the Miriam Dell Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring from the New Zealand Association for Women in Science.[8] [9]