was the ANZIC (Australian and New Zealand International Ocean Discovery Program Consortium) Program Scientist and then the Program Director. Personal life and death She died after a short battle with cancer, on 4 January 2022, at the age of 53. Awards Armand received the Bigelow Laboratory's Rose-Provasoli Award She was recipient of the European Union Incoming Marie Curie Fellowship (2005-2007) and the Australian Academy of Science's Dorothy Hill award in 2007 for excellence in palaeoceanographic research. She received a U.S. Antarctic Service Medal in 2014 for the Sabrina Coast Mission on the RVIB Palmer and was the first Chief Scientist to conduct a Southern Ocean expedition on Australia’s then-new research ship, RV Investigator, in 2017. References External links Leanne Armand's webpage 1968 births 2022 deaths Australian National University alumni Australian women scientists Australian planktologists Women planktologists Scientists from Adelaide Macquarie University faculty Australian Antarctic scientists Women Antarctic scientists Deaths from cancer in the Australian Capital Territory