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Redalyc.Obituario.Celina Matilde Matteri (1943-2004) Darwiniana ISSN: 0011-6793 [email protected] Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Argentina Gamundí, Irma J. Obituario.Celina Matilde Matteri (1943-2004) Darwiniana, vol. 43, núm. 1-4, diciembre, 2005, pp. 286-292 Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Buenos Aires, Argentina Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=66943420 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto DARWINIANA 43(1-4): 286-292. 2005 ISSN 0011-6793 OBITUARIO Celina Matilde Matteri (1943-2004) Terrestrial Ecology, Escocia, Reino Unido y visi- tando varios herbarios briológicos europeos en Edimburgo, Londres, Ginebra y París. En 1975 fue Becaria del Ministerio de Educación de Finlandia por 8 meses para realizar un entrenamiento en taxonomía de musgos de Tierra del Fuego, bajo la dirección del Dr. H. Roivainen, en el Botanical Museum de la Universidad de Helsinki, Finlandia. Celina era una botánica muy apreciada fuera de nuestro país y realizó varias estadías en el extranje- ro. En 1988 viajó a Australia, Tasmania y Nueva Zelanda entrevistádose con colegas y coautores de diversos trabajos en Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Christchurch y Auckland; en 1992 visitó los Esta- Celina Matteri falleció el 30 de noviembre de dos Unidos de América, para consultar herbarios 2004, tras una penosa enfermedad que la mantuvo briológicos del New York Botanical Garden y recluida en su casa durante los últimos años, ya que Missouri Botanical Garden. su fragilidad física le impedía la movilización. No Su vinculación con el Museo Argentino de obstante, con su infatigable laboriosidad, seguía Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” trabajando. Prueba de ello es que sus cuatro útimos (MACN) data de 1966 cuando honorariamente tra- trabajos (en prensa) datan de 2004. bajó hasta 1971 bajo la dirección de la Dra. Celina nació en la Provincia de Buenos Aires el Gabriela Hassel de Menéndez en tareas de organi- 27 de septiembre de 1943, cursó sus estudios ter- zación del herbario de Musgos del Departamento ciarios en el Instituto Nacional Superior del Profe- de Botánica. Desde 1972 formó parte del equipo sorado Secundario “Joaquín V. González”, donde de investigadores, y en 1987 fue designada Jefe obtuvo el grado de Profesor en Biología. En esa del Laboratorio de Briología y Conservación de misma Institución realizó estudios de post-grado, Briófitas, hasta su fallecimiento. Paralelamente a que le ameritaron el título de Profesor Agregado a su actividad científica, colaboró en tareas de ges- la Cátedra de Criptógamas, gracias a su trabajo de tión, desempeñando los cargos de Secretaria Aca- graduación sobre especies del género Philonotis démica (1996-98), Miembro Alterno del Directo- (Musci), publicado en 1968 en la Revista del Mu- rio (1999-2004) y Miembro Asesor de la Secreta- seo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Entre 1964 y ría de Política Ambiental (2001-2004) del MACN 1995 realizó otros cursos de perfeccionamiento en desempeñándose con eficiencia y celeridad, dos instituciones oficiales (UBA, INAP, SECYT) so- actitudes que componían su fuerte personalidad. bre temas relacionados con el Mejoramiento de la Fue una vida íntegra dedicada a la institución que Enseñanza, Nomenclatura Botánica y Formación la acogiera en su juventud. de Recursos Humanos. Su actividad de investigación se complementó Su formación profesional se incrementó con la con su ingreso a la Carrera del Investigador obtención de varias becas: fue Becaria de Inicia- Cientifico del CONICETen 1973, alcanzando la ción y Perfeccionamiento del CONICET (1969- categoría de Investigador Independiente en 1978, 72) y Becaria externa (1980) de la misma institu- que mantuvo hasta su deceso. Fue directora de ción, para realizar trabajos en ecología y taxono- varios proyectos de investigación recibiendo subsi- mía de musgos vinculados al programa “Transecta dios del CONICET (1986-2004), National Geo- Botánica de la Patagonia Austral”, colaborando graphic Society (1986 –2004) , CONICET- con el Dr. S. W. Greene en el Institute of Missouri Botanical Garden (1993-2004) y 286 ANPCyT-FONCYT [SECYT (2000)]. Entre los Celina era una persona afecta a guardar las dis- proyectos que dirigió o co-dirigió, y en los que tancias, pero una vez franqueado el primer muro, participó activamente, se pueden mencionar: Moss su capacidad de comunicación se manifestaba ple- Flora of Southern Patagonia, Flora Criptogámica namente, mostrándose siempre dispuesta a ayudar de Tierra del Fuego (Programa PROFCRIPT- y colaborar. Aún la recuerdo en campaña, lápiz y CONICET), Programa de Investigaciones libreta en mano, tomando minuciosas notas ecoló- Muscinales de Argentina (MACN-PROCINA). gicas cuando recorríamos los maravillosos bos- Participó en congresos internacionales como Glo- ques de Nothofagus de Tierra del Fuego. Siento bal Biodiversity Forum (1996), Symposium on una gran pena que se haya ido con la frustración de 2000’s Bryology (Beijing, 1997) y Southern no haber sido ascendida a Investigadora Principal Connections Congress (Valdivia, 1997), donde en el CONICET, después de permanecer como presentó trabajos o ponencias. Su producción bi- Investigadora Independiente durante 26 años. bliográfica es profusa, y comprende temas de “Todo un record Guinness”, como ella solía decir! taxonomía, ecología y conservación de musgos, con un total de 3 libros, 3 capítulos de libros, 83 trabajos científicos publicados en relevantes revis- Irma J. Gamundí tas nacionales y extranjeras, 28 presentaciones a congresos, 9 trabajos de divulgación científica. En- tre los primeros caben destacarse sus contribucio- nes sobre Hookeriales (1975), Bartramiaceae LISTA COMPLETA DE ARTÍCULOS EN (1987) y Amblystegiaceae (2000) para la Flora PUBLICACIONES PERIÓDICAS Criptogámica de Tierra del Fuego; dos capítulos en colaboración con G. Hassel de Menéndez y S. Matteri, C. M. 1968. Las especies de Philonotis W. Greene para la “Transecta de la Patagonia Aus- (Bartramiaceae) del Sur de Argentina. Revista Mu- tral” (1985) dirigida por O. Boelcke, D. M. Moore seo Argentino Ciencias Naturales, Bot. 3 (4): 185- & F. Roig, y uno para Southern South America 234. Biodiversity, Centres of Diversity and Endemisms ——. 1970. Morfología del protonema y formación de en T. Hallenberg & N. Hodgetts (2000). En reco- yemas en Philonotis (Bartramiaceae). Revista Mu- nocimiento a su labor le fue dedicado un género: seo Argentino Ciencias Naturales, Bot. 3(8): 255- Matteria. 265. ——. 1972. Las Hookeriaceae (Musci)Andino- A pesar de no estar relacionada formalmente Patagónicas II. Revista Museo Argentino Ciencias con la docencia, Celina formó discípulos de grado Naturales, Bot. 4(2): 243-280. y de postgrado que participaron en sus proyectos y Margadant, W. D., Miller, H. A. & Matteri, C. M. 1972. fueron coautores de algunas publicaciones. Tam- Proposal for the conservation of the generic name bién dirigió tesis de licenciatura, co-dirigió una Pterygophyllum Brid. 18l9, in Musci. Taxon 21(4): tesis de doctorado en la Universidad Nacional del 536. Comahue, y supervisó una tesis de doctorado en la Matteri, C. M. 1973.El género Breutelia (Bartramiaceae, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Musci) en la región Andino Patagónica. Revista No quiero abundar en referencias sobre su des- Museo Argentino Ciencias Naturales Bot. 4 (4): 321-360. tacada labor de investigación, por muchos conoci- ——. 1973. Revisión de las Hypoterygiaceae (Musci) da (aunque por algunos no reconocida) para desta- Austrosudamericanas. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot., 15, car otros aspectos notorios de su personalidad: la (2- 3): 229-250. gran capacidad de organización, que se puso de ——. 1973. Notas briológicas (Musci) I. Anals. Inst. de manifiesto cuando fue un Presidente realmente ac- la Patagonia 4(3): 328. tivo del VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Botánica ——. 1973. Notas briológicas (Musci) II. Anals. Inst. de (Mar del Plata, 1994); durante las visitas y campa- la Patagonia 4(3): 329. ñas de colegas extranjeros y por su talento como ——. 1975. Las Hookeriaceae (Musci), Andino- editora de trabajos científicos; su dinamismo en el patagónicas. I. Nova Hedwigia 26: 649-724. —— l976. Proposal for the typification of the genus campo, manifestado en sus numerosos viajes por Hypopterygium Brid. (1827). Taxon 25(1): 189. Argentina y otros lugares del mundo que visitó. 287 DARWINIANA 43(1-4): 286-292. 2005 —— 1977. Notes on Antarctic Bryophytes X. The genus Fife, A. J. & Matteri, C. M. 1984. Distichophyllum Pottia from the Antarctic Botanical Zone. Bulletin kraussei (Lor.) Mitt. A Patagonian moss species of the British Antarctic Survey 46: 140-143. newly recorded from New Zealand. Lindbergia 10: —— 1977. Synoptic Flora of Southgeorgian Mosses. 159-164. VII. Pottia. Bulletin of the British Antarctic Survey Matteri, C. M. 1984. Ocurrence of tubers and rhizomes 46: 23-28. in Chrysoblastella chilensis (Mont.) Reim. ——. l977 . Bryophyta: Musci, pp.32-36, en S. H. Lindbergia l0: 165-168. Hurlbert (ed.), Biota Acuatica de Sudamerica Aus- ——. 1985. Estado actual de la Briología en América tral. San Diego State University Publications, 33- Latina. Resúmenes XX Jornadas Argentinas de Bo- 36. tánica: 162. ——. l977. Review of: J. P. Frahm, Conspectus der Hässel, G.G., Matteri, C. M. & Greene, S. W. 1985. Mittel- und Südamerikanisches Campylopus Arten. 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