Janet Wilmshurst

Janet Wilmshurst
Wilmshurst in 2019 at the 25th birthday celebrations of the Marsden Fund
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury
Scientific career
FieldsPaleoecology
InstitutionsManaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
ThesisA 2000 year history of vegetation and landscape change in Hawke's Bay, North Island, New Zealand (1995)
Doctoral advisorsVida 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.