Research Excellence Award winner - Dennis Gordon, 2012

Research Excellence Award winner: Dennis Gordon, Group Manager, Marine Biodiversity, Wellington. Dennis won the Research Excellence Award for his central role in the creation of the 3-volume New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity – documenting all the known species in New Zealand, over all time. He instigated the project, managed the contributions of over 200 scientists, and oversaw the arrangement of taxa and editing of species descriptions, as well as making the inventory highly readable. Credit: Dave Allen, NIWA