Sharon Robinson is Associate Professor School of Biological Sciences and Institute for Conservation Biology, University of Wollongong. Her main research focus is understanding how plants respond to Climate Change induced environmental stress in Antarctica (Cool Plants) and Australia (Plant Stress Ecophysiology). In addition she is interested in elucidating the mechanism that allows thermoregulatory plants to maintain their flowers at temperatures well above ambient air temperatures (Hot Plants). Plant responses can be monitored at a range of levels from the molecular to the ecological and her research encompasses all of these levels.
Articles
Two Cys or Not Two Cys? That Is the Question; Alternative Oxidase in the Thermogenic Plant Sacred Lotus (with N M. Grant, Y Onda, Y Kakizaki, K Ito, and J R. Watling), Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) regulates temperature in its floral chamber to 32°C to 35°C across...
Accumulation of DNA damage in Antarctic mosses: correlations with ultraviolet-B radiation, temperature and turf water content vary amongst species (with J. D. Turnbull), Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
The susceptibility of three East Antarctic moss species to UV-B radiation was examined by measuring...
Genetic structure of East Antarctic populations of the moss Ceratodon purpureus (with L. J. Clarke and D. J. Ayre), Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
The capacity of the polar flora to adapt is of increasing concern given current and...
Desiccation protects two Antarctic mosses from ultraviolet-B induced DNA damage (with J. D. Turnbull), Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
Living in a frozen desert, Antarctic mosses are characterised by the ability to survive desiccation...
Functional transition in the floral receptacle of the sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera): from thermogenesis to photosynthesis (with R. E. Miller and J. R. Watling), Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
The receptacle of the sacred lotus is the main source of heat during the thermogenic...
Contributions to Books
Physiological Traits of Organisms in a Changing Environment (with F. Hennion, A. H. Huiskes, and P. Convey), Faculty of Science - Papers (2006)
[Extract] Antarctic ecosystems represent one extreme of the continuum of environmental conditions across the planet....
Presentations and Exhibitions
Diversity - Images of Nature (exhibition) (with L. Tasker, J. Wright, and A. Netherwood) (2009)
Exhibition of photographs by Sharon Robinson, Liz Tasker, Andrew Netherwood and Julie Wright, held at...
Fire, Water, Earth and Air - the elements of conservation (exhibition) (with G. M.A. Netherwood and J. Wright) (2009)
"Fire, Water, Earth and Air - the elements of conservation", sums up the main research...
The Science of Cool (video) (with G. M.A. Netherwood) (2009)
Video and Chorotube prize winner on the subject of plants from the the Antarctic.
Fragile Nature (exhibition) (with G. M.A. Netherwood) (2008)
Photographic exhibition of Antarctic prints.
ICB Photo Competition (2008)
Sharon Robinson was project initiator and curator of the Institute of Conservation Biology ICB University...