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Posts tagged ‘artifical light at night’

Dec 1

Grant success for Nik Willmott in 2019

Congratulations to Nik for receiving two grants in 2019. He was successful in receiving funding from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment and from the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Environment Fund.

Jul 24

Grant success for Marty Lockett

Marty’s project exploring the effects of artificial light on trophic chains in Eucalyptus woodlands has now received funding from three separate organisations: Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment (funding the field experimental set up and laboratory processing); Ecological Society of Australia Student Research Award (covering costs of transportation to field sites and sampling equipment) and Field Naturalists Club of Victoria Environment Fund (purchase of Audiomoth bioacoustic recorders). Congrats Marty and massive thanks to three wonderful organisations supporting original research in Australia! 

Jan 16

Grant success for Ashton Dickerson

Ashton has received funding from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment for her research examining the function of nocturnal song in the willie wagtail. She will use this funding to buy supplies necessary to maintain a banded population of willie wagtails along with travel costs associated with her fieldwork.

Dec 17

Grants for Joanna Durrant in 2016

In March Jo received a grant from the Robert Johanson and Anne Swann Fund to present at the 2016 Artificial Light at Night (ALAN) conference in Romania and meet with researchers in Berlin. She also received another Holsworth grant to further investigate the biological impacts of artificial light at night in crickets.

Jun 20

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New grant for Annie Aulsebrook

Annie was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment to investigate how artificial light at night affects the circadian rhythms of black swans.

Dec 20

New grant for Annie Aulsebrook

Annie was awarded a grant from the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour to investigate how artificial light at night affects melatonin, behaviour and sleep in black swans.