Name Marilyn Ball | ||
Marilyn Ball is a professor at the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the Australian National University (ANU), and leader of the Ball (Marilyn) Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance.
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- Areas of expertise
- 2009
- 2007
- Ball Marilyn Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance
- Student Projects
- Other Projects
- Publications
- References
Professor Ball gained her PhD in environmental biology from the ANU in 1982. She held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 1984 and at the ANU's North Australia Research Unit in Darwin from 1985 to 1988. In 1989, Professor Ball was awarded a National Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council. In 1990, Professor Ball was appointed to a tenured position in biology at the ANU and since then has led an eco-physiological research group there. She is a member of the Australian Antarctic Research Advisory Committee and serves on the Editorial Boards of the international journals: Ecosystems, Global Change Biology, Oecologia, Plant, Cell & Environment, and Tree Physiology.
Areas of expertise
2009
fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Awarded by The Australian Academy of Science
Joint College Award for Excellence in Education Awarded by The ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment and the ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
2007
Lifetime Honorary Member Award from the Ecological Society of America Awarded by Ecological Society of America
Ball (Marilyn) Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance
Professor Ball's laboratory investigates how plant communities respond to changed environmental conditions, in terms of their physiology. In particular they explore the relationships between stress tolerance and photosynthesis, and the consequences for plants' ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and hence help to remediate climate change. Case studies involve mangroves, temperate evergreen sclerophyll species, and Antarctic vegetation.