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.
Posts tagged ‘grant’
Dec 1
Jun 10
The Stearns graduate research award for Tom Keaney
Congratulations to Tom for receiving The Stearns graduate research award. This is an annual award chosen by the ESEB & the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (JEB) editorial team for the best paper by a graduate student published in the journal for the year. Tom received this award for his paper “Mother’s curse and indirect genetic effects: do males matter to mitochondrial genome evolution?” (https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13561).
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!
May 18
New grant for Liz Milla
Congratulations to Liz Milla for receiving a Australian Lepidoptera Research Endowment grant!
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.
Success for Liz Milla in 2016
Congratulations to Liz Milla for receiving two travel awards and two grants in 2016. She received the ABRS Travel award to attend International Congress of Entomology, Orlando, and the F.H. Drummond Travel Award in July. She also received a grant from the Australian Lepidoptera Research Endowment and a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment grant.
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.
Travel award for Caitlin Selleck
Caitlin Selleck has received a David H. Ashton Travel Award for 2016. Good work Caitlin!
Jun 20
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.
