Ann Chapman

{{other people|Anne Chapman}} {{short description|New Zealand limnologist}} {{EngvarB|date=March 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}}

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thumb|right|Lake Chapman in Antarctica, named in Chapman's honour

'''Margaret Ann Chapman''' (14 January 1937 – 23 May 2009) was a limnologist, one of the first New Zealand women scientists to visit Antarctica, and the first woman to lead a scientific expedition to Antarctica.<ref name="nzfssobit">{{cite web|title=Obituary Dr M.A (Ann) Chapman (1937–2009)|url=http://freshwater.science.org.nz/index.php/news/obituary-dr-ma-ann-chapman-1937-2009/|website=New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society|accessdate=6 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806140641/http://freshwater.science.org.nz/index.php/news/obituary-dr-ma-ann-chapman-1937-2009/|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lake Chapman, in Antarctica's Ross Dependency, was named for Chapman.<ref name="lakegeo">{{cite web|title=Chapman, Lake: Antarctica|url=http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=18689&fid=antgeo_128|website=Geographic.org|accessdate=6 August 2017}}</ref> Chapman spent most of her teaching career at the University of Waikato.

==Early life and education== Chapman was born in Dunedin on 14 January 1937 and studied at Southland Girls' High School and Otago Girls' High School.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2009/12969 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |accessdate=4 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="specialjournal">{{cite journal|last1=Green|first1=John|last2=Boothroyd|first2=Ian|title=Ann Chapman – inspirational limnologist|journal=New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research|year=1999|volume=33|issue=3|pages=333–340|doi=10.1080/00288330.1999.9516880}}</ref> She graduated with a Masters of Science at the University of Otago in 1960; her thesis was on the taxonomy and ecology of New Zealand freshwater ostracods.<ref name="specialjournal" /> She worked at the Sydney Water Board in Australia before moving to Scotland to study toward a PhD at the University of Glasgow, which she completed in 1965.<ref name="nzfssobit" /> Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Ecological studies on the zooplankton of Loch Lomond''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://encore.lib.gla.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1631875 |title=Catalogue search |publisher=University of Glasgow Library |accessdate=3 October 2017|year=1965 }}</ref>

==Career== She worked at the University of Glasgow and the University of Auckland before being appointed as a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato in 1970 and promoted to Reader in 1975.<ref name="nzfssobit" /><ref name="specialjournal" /> She remained at the University of Waikato until her retirement in 1996.<ref name="nzfssobit" />

In 1971, Chapman led a three-week scientific expedition to Antarctica, which made her one of the first women on the continent and the first woman to lead an Antarctic expedition.<ref name="specialjournal" /> Lake Chapman, near Granite Harbour in Antarctica's Ross Sea Dependency, is named after Chapman.

Chapman and Vida Stout founded the New Zealand Limnological Society in 1967 (now the New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://freshwater.science.org.nz/index.php/about/honorary-past-members/a-tribute-to-vida-stout/|title=A tribute to Vida Stout|last=Winterbourn|first=Mike|date=2018|website=freshwater.science.org.nz|publisher=New Zealand Freshwater Sciences Society|language=en|access-date=2018-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929155532/http://freshwater.science.org.nz/index.php/about/honorary-past-members/a-tribute-to-vida-stout/|archive-date=29 September 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She co-authored the ''Guide to the freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand'', published in 1976, with Maureen Lewis. An updated version was published in 2011, which Chapman had been working on prior to her death.<ref name="crustacea">{{cite web|title=Guide to the freshwater Crustacea of New Zealand|url=http://www.mwpress.co.nz/animals/guide-to-the-freshwater-crustacea-of-new-zealand|website=Manaaki Whenua Press|accessdate=6 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170806101002/http://www.mwpress.co.nz/animals/guide-to-the-freshwater-crustacea-of-new-zealand|archive-date=6 August 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Retirement== Following her 1996 retirement, a special conference session was held in her honour, which resulted in a special section in the ''New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research'' published in 1999.<ref name="specialjournal" /> In the foreword to the special issue, Chapman was recalled as being "very relaxed" with a "healthy disrespect for minor rules and regulations that bedevil large institutions, and willing to turn a blind eye to student pranks".<ref name="specialjournal" />

Chapman's final years were plagued with ill health, but she converted her nursing home room into an office and continued to write, including working on a draft of an updated version of the freshwater Crustacea guide.<ref name="nzfssobit" /> She died in Hamilton on 23 May 2009.<ref name="nzfssobit"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hamilton.govt.nz/our-services/do-it-online/cemetery-search/Pages/default.aspx?surname=chapman&forename=margaret+ann |title=Cemetery search |website= |publisher=Hamilton City Council |accessdate=4 October 2017}}</ref>

In 2017, Chapman was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ann Chapman|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/ann-chapman/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref>

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