ISOBEL BENNETT

Did she travel?

When did she die?

Has she any books?

She helped Dakin with alot of tasks leading her to write the first monograph ever published on Australian plankton, and the 1952 publishing of Australian Seashores. These were the first such Australian guidebooks, and were published two years after Dakin's death. It was reprinted eleven times and there were several new additions. Her book, Fringe of the Sea, was done at home in her own time and without the knowledge of her employers until it was completed. Professor Birch was dumbfounded when handed a copy after its printing. She worked on The Great Barrier Reef between 1948 and 1970, and in 1971 The Great Barrier Reef, was published. It became another bible for many reef researchers. All the books she wrote went into multiple printings or editions.

Beginnings and beyond!!!

Isobel died at 98 on january the 12th 2008 in Sydney. She passed away due to old age in a nursing home in Mona Vale. i think that if Isobel hadn't discovered rock platforms on the foreshores, and discovered the marine life and objects like an osprey, she wouldn't have brought us to see the aspects in marine life!

In 1933 she met Professor William Dankin and his wife on board a cruise ship to Norfolk Island. He was impressed with her attidude and abilities and offered her a job at the Mitchell library where she plotted a later book. In may that year she received a formal offer of a tempory position at the University of Sydney zoology department. Isobel then spent 40 years at the university and worked in various roles including secretary, departmental librarian, research assistant and demonstrator.

Who is Isobel Bennett?

In 1952 she was the lone female with 118 males on board the Danish research ship which took her from Sydney to Adelaide and back to Melbourne. As a temporary Professor at Standford University she travelled across the Pacific on the twin-masted schooner lecturing to students. Her tales of exciting plankton hauls, animal sightings and tales of seeing a floating island of palm trees always got her enthusiasm up. She and her assistant were members of the first four women scientists to visit Macquarie Island.

Isobel Bennett is an Australian Marine Biologist. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, in 1909. The eldest of four children, she left school at 16

and went to a business college before working as

a secretary in a patent attorney's office. When she was 19, she moved to Sydney and worked at the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music until it closed.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Isobel-Bennett/

Bibliography

Did she win any awards?

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au

http://www.nla.gov.au

She was the first person to receive a Honorary of Master of Science in 1962 from the University of Sydney and she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science in 1995 from the University of New South Wales. She was made an officer of the order of Australia, for her services to marine biology in 1984. At the ANZAAS meeting in 1982 she was the second Australian women given the Mueller Medal. Also the Royal Zoological Society's Whitley Award for the Great Barrier Reef, for natural history photographs, The Australian Seashores, for best text, and the third book of A Coral Reef handbook received the Whitley Award for best handbook.

http://www.cambridge.org

http://www.ranker.com

http://au.ask.com

ISOBEL BENNETT

Marine Biologist

By Amber R

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