Susie Wood
Susanna Wood is a New Zealand scientist whose research focuses on understanding, protecting and restoring New Zealand's freshwater environments. One of her particular areas of expertise is the
ecology, toxin production, and impacts of toxic freshwater
cyanobacteria in lakes and rivers. Wood is active in advocating for the incorporation of
DNA-based tools such as
metabarcoding,
genomics and
metagenomics for characterising and understanding aquatic ecosystems and investigating the climate and
anthropogenic drivers of water quality change in New Zealand lakes. She has consulted for government departments and regional authorities and co-leads a nationwide programme Lakes380 that aims to obtain an overview of the health of New Zealand's lakes using
paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Wood is a senior scientist at the
Cawthron Institute. She has represented New Zealand internationally in cycling.
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