published in 1996 by UNESCO. Awards Throughout her career, she received many awards, in recognition of her work, including the 1988 Inaugural Jubilee Award from the Australian Marine Science Association; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) (1991) and she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1993. In 1991 she was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales. In 2000 Dr Jeffrey received the Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal from the United States National Academy of Science, the first person outside the United States to receive this Medal, and was later elected as a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science. In 2003, she was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal, and in 2007 she received the Shinkishi Hatai Medal at the 21st Pacific Science Congress in Okinawa, Japan. She was a member, Fellow and former Council member of Jane Franklin Hall, a college of the University of Tasmania and an office-bearer of the Royal Society of Tasmania. In 2012, several of her colleagues recognised her achievements in "Tribute to Shirley Jeffrey: 50 years of research on chlorophyll c" published in Phycologia (Volume 51, 2: 123–125). Despite retiring in 1995, Dr Jeffrey continued to research and publish as an honorary research fellow with the CSIRO until her death in 2014, and was an accomplished violinist in the Hobart Chamber Orchestra. References External links Interviews With Australian Scientists profile Tribute to Shirley Jeffrey: 50 years of research on chlorophyll c - Phycologia Sydney Morning Herald Obituary Simon W. Wright, Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff, and R. Fauzi C. Mantoura, "Shirley W. Jeffrey", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) 1930 births 2014 deaths Australian women scientists Australian planktologists Women planktologists People from Townsville University of Sydney alumni Alumni of King's College London Members of the Order of Australia Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American women scientists 21st-century American women