Janet Wilmshurst | |
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 Wilmshurst in 2019 at the 25th birthday celebrations of the Marsden Fund | |
| Born | 1966 (age 57–58) Andover, Hampshire, England |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleoecology |
| Institutions | Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research |
| Thesis | A 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand (1995) |
| Doctoral advisors | Vida Stout Matt McGlone |
Janet Mary Wilmshurst FRSNZ (born 1966) is a New Zealand palaeoecologist who works on reconstructing the ecological past. Wilmshurst has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 2015. She was president of the New Zealand Ecological Society, and currently works as principal scientist in long-term ecology at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research focusing on recent fossil records to reconstruct and trace past ecosystem changes in response to natural disturbance.