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Marilyn Ball is a professor at the College of Medicine, Biology and Environment at the Australian National University (ANU), and leader of the Ball (Marilyn) Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance. Professor Ball gained her PhD in environmental Bbiology from the ANU in 1982. She held postdoctoral positions at the University of California, Berkeley from 1981 to 1984 and at the ANU North Australia Research Unit in Darwin from 1985 to 1988. In 1989, Professor Ball was awarded a National Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, Australia’s premier research funding body. In 1990, Professor Ball was appointed to a tenured position in biology at the ANU and since then has led an eco-physiological research group there. She is a member of the Australian Antarctic Research Advisory Committee and serves on the Editorial Boards of the international journals Ecosystems, Global Change Biology, Oecologia, Plant, Cell & Environment, and Tree Physiology.

Areas of expertise

 * Global Change Biology
 * Plant Physiology
 * Ecological Physiology
 * Cell Metabolism

2009
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science Awarded by The Australian Academy of Science

Joint College Award for Excellence in Education Awarded by The ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment and the ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences

2007
Lifetime Honorary Member Award from the Ecological Society of America Awarded by Ecological Society of America

Ball (Marilyn) Lab for Ecophysiology of Salinity and Freezing Tolerance
The Ball Lab studies how physiological adaptations and responses to environmental stresses affect the structure and functioning of plant communities along environmental gradients. Current projects are exploring the role of plant morphology in evolutionary trade-offs between stress tolerance and coordination of hydraulic and photosynthetic activity in leaves. This trade-off has implications for the structure, display and function of leaves that might constrain carbon gain and affect the capacity of evergreen species to respond with growth to climate warming and increasing atmospheric [CO2]. The work is being conducted on mangroves, temperate evergreen sclerophylls, and Antarctic vegetation. From The Australian National University http://biology.anu.edu.au/research/labs/ball-marilyn-lab-ecophysiology-salinity-and-freezing-tolerance

Student Projects

 * Ecophysiology of salinity and temperature tolerance in a changing world (Honours, Higher degree by research)

Other Projects

 * Climate change and carbon gain in Antarctic mosses
 * Coping with temperature extremes: morphological constraints on leaf function in a warmer, drier climate
 * Salinity tolerance along an aridity gradient: linking physiological processes with morphological constraints on leaf function in mangroves

Links

 * https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/ball-mc
 * http://biology.anu.edu.au/research/labs/ball-marilyn-lab-ecophysiology-salinity-and-freezing-tolerance
 * http://www.pubfacts.com/author/Marilyn+C+Ball