Kath Dickinson

Katharine Josephine Mary Dickinson is a New Zealand academic working in the field of botany. In 2009 the New Zealand Ecological Society awarded Dickinson the Te Tohu Taiao Award, an award for ecological excellence. As of 2018 she is a full professor at the University of Otago.
Academic career.
After a 1985 PhD thesis titled " 'Vegetation and fuel dynamics following clearfelling of dry Eucalypt forests on Dolerite in Southeastern Tasmania with special reference to the use of fire in forest regeneration' " at the University of Tasmania in Australia, Dickinson moved to the University of Otago in New Zealand, rising to professor.
Dickinson has published in diverse areas, but particularly in alpine systems and ecology.
In 2009, Dickinson was awarded the Te Tohu Taiao Award by the New Zealand Ecological Society. She is recognised as an excellent teacher at a national level.