Carolyn Burns

Dame Carolyn Burns DNZM CBE
Born	(1942-02-03) 3 February 1942 (age 82) Lincoln, New Zealand
Spouse	John Ingram Hubbard ​ ​ (m. 1981; died 1995)​
Parents	Malcolm Burns (father) Ruth Alvina Burns (née Waugh) (mother)
Alma mater	University of Canterbury – BSc(Hons) University of Toronto – PhD
Awards	Commander of the Order of the British Empire, New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Naumann-Thienemann Medal of the International Society of Limnology, Marsden Medal of the New Zealand Association of Scientists, Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Scientific career
Fields	Zoology, limnology
Institutions	University of Otago
Thesis	The feeding behaviour of Daphnia under natural conditions.  (1966)

Dame Carolyn Waugh Burns DNZM CBE (born 3 February 1942) is a New Zealand ecologist specialising in lakes. She is an emeritus professor at the University of Otago.^[1]