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).
SASB members can read student grant reports here.