Ann Chapman

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. Lake Chapman, in Antarctica's Ross Dependency, was named for Chapman. 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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.