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Research Awards

ACRS supports the research of up to four students by the provision of Student Grants. The best proposals received will be awarded the Terry Walker Prize of $2500 or the Danielle Simmons Prize of $2500.

Given Terry Walker's commitment to field studies on Australian coral reefs and cays, this award is to be spent primarily on field studies on Australian coral reefs.

Given Danielle Simmons commitment to field work at Heron Island, successful applicants for this award will need to spend some time at Heron Island working in the field.

The other research grants (up to two) of $2000 are to be used for laboratory and/or field studies relevant to Australian coral reefs.


Congratulations to the 2012 research award winners:

Terry Walker Prize: Jessica Tout (UTS)
"The role of bacterial behaviour in structuring coral-bacteria interactions"

Danielle Simmons Prize: Sarah Van-Eyk (UQ)
"The sensory system of elasmobranchs"

ACRS Award - Gabrielle Miller (JCU)
"The interactive effects of ocean acidification and increasing temperature on key life history stages of a coral reef fish, Amphiprion melanopus"

ACRS Award - Heather Veilleux (JCU)
"Epigenetic acclimation to increasing sea surface temperature in a coral reef fish"

 

Student Fellowships to the 12th ICRS Conference

pocilopperaThe ACRS Student Fellowships to the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium are to support outstanding postgraduate students from Australia and New Zealand with the aim of providing students with experience and international contacts that they would not otherwise acquire. By attending the international conference the students will serve an important role as ambassadors for Australian coral reef science through improving the awareness in the international scientific community of the work of Australian coral reef research students. It is planned to award student fellowships which will contribute to the cost of attending the conference. We will be selecting these Fellows based on excellence of their research which they intend to present at the meeting.

Applications are now closed.

 

ACRS Conference Travel Awards

Travel awards are provided to students for attendance to the annual ACRS conference and the ICRS conference held every 4 years.

Applications are now closed.

 

Conference Presentation Awards

These are awarded to the most outstanding student oral and poster presentations at the annual ACRS conference.