Newsletter article
It is with sadness that I announce to the IOP community the untimely death of our dear colleague, Dr. Nathalie Nagalingum. Nathalie passed away on August 22nd this year, surrounded by her family in Melbourne, Australia, after a long battle with ovarian cancer.Nathalie was born in Melbourne on 17th March, 1975, the daughter of Mauritian immigrants. She excelled in biological science at school and later studied botany at the University of Melbourne. She completed both her BSc Honours (in 1996) and PhD (in 2002) projects, under the supervision of Prof Andrew Drinnan and myself at that institution. Her BSc (Honours) project dealt with Early Cretaceous conifers (particularly an apparently deciduous form that she later described as Bellarinea richardsii) from the Gippsland Basin of southeastern Australia. Her PhD shifted towards an investigation of the systematics of Early Cretaceous ferns from Australia and Antarctica—incorporating material from both Museum Victoria in Melbourne and the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.