Dianne Edwards FRS is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
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Dianne's work has centered on early plant fossils, the majority of which have been retrieved from the UK.[1] Her interest in early plants was initiated after she studied plant fossils preserved in three dimensions in the mineral pyrite (fools' gold);[1] much of her later work has centred on the Rhynie chert and charcoalified fossils, large and microscopic, from the Welsh borderlands and south Wales - a short drive from the University of Cardiff, at which she is a research professor in the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences.[2] She also has links with China, consulting for the Beijing Museum of Natural History, and working on fossils from that country.[2]
Among Dianne's most notable works are the discovery of vascular tissue in Cooksonia,[3] the description and analysis of stomata in early land plants,[4] and very early liverwort-like plants.[5] The charcoalified nature of many of her fossils have enabled her to prove that wildfires took place in the Siluruan period.[6] She has also worked on several enigmatic fossils such as Nematothallus,[7] Tortilicaulis[8] and Prototaxites.[9]
Dianne was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1996,[1] and is a trustee of the Natural History Museum, London.[2] She was the 2004 winner of the Lyell Medal.
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