Professor Amanda Black (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea, Whānau-ā-Apanui) is the Director of Bioprotection Aotearoa, a TEC funded National centre of research excellence hosted at Lincoln University. Her research expertise is environmental soil and water biogeochemistry, focusing on soil health . She has recently focused her Rutherford Discovery Fellowship research on ecosystem resilience, forest health and tree dieback, with a particular focus on investigating ecological disturbance and how this translates into resilience to withstand challenges such as climate change.