Johanna Alida Coetzee

Johanna Alida Coetzee (also known as Joey Coetzee) was a researcher at the University of the Free State.[1]

Johanna Alida Coetzee
Born1921
Died2007 (aged 85–86)
Somerset West

Coetzee was born in 1921 and was educated first in the Jeppe High School for Girls in Johannesburg before completing a master's degree at the University of the Witwatersrand. She died on 28 April 2007[1] in Somerset West.[2]

Coetzee was an expert in pollen research of Africa, whose research helped establish the importance of temperature changes in the history of African vegetation during the Quaternary and that ice ages were not wetter there, but also clarified the history of the South African fynbos biome.[1][3] She visited and worked at various universities in Europe[2] and toured wide parts of Africa in order to collect material and later she was an editor of the Palaeoecology of Africa series.[4]

References
  1. Scott 2007, p. 1.
  2. Baumhauer & Runge 2009, p. ix.
  3. Baumhauer & Runge 2009, pp. ix-x.
  4. Scott 2007, p. 2.

Sources
  • Baumhauer, Roland; Runge, Jürgen (2009). Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of the central Sahara. Boca Raton: CRC Press. ISBN 9780415482561. LCCN 2008045244. OCLC 263146992. OL 22658944M.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Scott, Louis (December 2007). "Professor Joey Coetzee 1921–2007". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 147 (1–4): 1–2. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2007.08.001.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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