Awards

2023

Early career researcher – Linette Umbrello

Mid-career researcher – Not awarded

Distinguished career researcher – Lyn Cook

2022

Early career researcher –  Emily Roycroft

Mid-career researcher – Michael Rix

2021

Early career researcher – Francis Nge

Mid-career researcher – Kenny Travouillon

Distinguished career researcher – Andy Austin

2020

Early career researcher jointly awarded to – Juanita Rodriguez and Dan Huston

Mid-career researcher – Kym Abrams

2019

Early career researcher – Erinn Fagan-Jeffries

Mid-career researcher – Nerida Wilson

Distinguished career researcher – Craig Moritz

2018

Early career researcher – Scott Cutmore

Mid-career researcher – not awarded

2017

Early career researcher – Bryan Lessard

Mid-career researcher – Natalie Nagalingum

Distinguished career researcher – Mark Harvey

Grants

2023

Student research award: Shelby Middleton, Edith Cowan University. Taxonomy and evolution of the brushtail possum genus Trichosurus in Australia

Student travel grants:

• Antonio Rayos (University of Sydney) for travel to Biosystematics 2023 and associated herbarium visit.
• Cameron Dodd (University of Western Australia) for travel to Australian Museum for a collection visit.
• David Juszkiewicz (Curtin University) for field work to type localities of Porites corals.
• Helen Armstrong (Murdoch University) for travel to Biosystematics 2023.
• Lenin Indrajith De Silva (Murdoch University) for a field expedition to Heron Island Research Station.
• Mollie-Rosae Slater-Baker (The University of Adelaide) for travel to Biosystematics 2023 and associated lab visits.
• Paulo Baleeiro Souza (University of Queensland) for travel to Biosystematics 2023 and association collection visit.
• Tareva-Chine Atkin-Zaldivar (The University of Adelaide) for travel to Biosystematics 2023
• Bárbara Azevedo de Oliveira (University of Queensland) for travel to Biosystematics 2023
• Emma Holvast (Australian National University) for travel to Museums Victoria.

2022

Student research award:

Ethan Briggs, University of Queensland. Phylogenetics, Systematics and Biogeography of Australian Tarantulas.

Helen Armstrong, Murdoch University. Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of the Cryptogonimidae (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) parasitic in marine fishes.

Student travel grants:

• Yun Hsiao, to visit the Western Australian Museum entomology collection
• Isaac Kerr, to attend the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Toronto, Canada
• Richard Dylan Corner, to attend the 15th International Congress of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Joseph Schubert, to complete field work within Australia to collect jumping spiders (awarded, but not paid out)
• Natalie Tees, to visit the New Zealand Arthropod Collection
• Ashleigh Peck, to attend the  Concepts in Parasitology Workshop in Queensland
• Clarisse Louvard, to attend the 15th International Congress of Parasitology, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ethan Briggs, to visit the Western Australian Museum arachnology collection
• Shelby Middleton, to visit the mammal collections of the South Australian, Victorian and Australian Museums
• Jacob van Zoelen, to attend the International Palaeontological Congress in Thailand

2021

Student research award: Richard Dylan Corner, The University of Queensland. Life cycles of pathogenic turtle blood flukes in Western Australia; assessing variation across a geographic range. 

Student travel grants:

• Richard Dylan Corner, University of Queensland.
• Clarisse Louvard, University of Queensland.
• Mollie-Rosae Slater-Baker, University of Adelaide.
• Kate Rick, University of Western Australia.
• Yun Hsiao, Australian National Unversity/CSIRO ANIC.
• Claire Rowe, University of Sydney.
• Alana Delaine, University of Adelaide.
• Elaine Anderson, University of Adelaide.
• David Juszkiewicz, Curtin University.

2020

Student research award: David Juszkiewicz, Curtin University. Using integrated taxonomy to provide new perspectives on massive coral growth rates in rapidly changing oceans

Student travel grants:

• David Juszkiewicz, Curtin University.
• Paulo Cesar Baleeiro Souza, University of Queensland.

2019

Student research award: Paige Maroni, The University of Western Australia and The Western Australian Museum. The ecology and evolution of an adaptive marine radiation of Antarctic sea slugs

Student travel grants:

• Olivia Davies, Flinders University. 
• James Dorey, Flinders Univeristy.
• Ben Parslow, Flinders University.
• Paige Maroni, The University of Western Australia and The Western Australian Museum.

2018

Student research award: Stephen Zozaya, James Cook University. Using pheromones to understand Australia’s hyper-diverse lizard fauna.

Student travel grants: a missing piece of SASB history…

2017

Student research award: Cara Van Der Wal, The University of Sydney. Assessing the conservation status and genetic diversity of two endemic freshwater crayfish Euastacus spinifer and Euastacus australasiensis using population genomics.

Student travel grants:

• Kara Layton, The University of Western Australia and Western Australian Museum.
• Jeremy Wilson, Griffith University and Queensland Museum.
• Linette Umbrello, The University of Western Australia and Western Australian Museum.
• Daniel C Huston, The University of Queensland.
• Stephen Zozaya, James Cook University (grant declined).