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 ‘Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment’
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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.
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.
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.
Jun 10
New grant and award for Liz Milla
Liz has been awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment to explore the evolutionary ecology of the Australian Heliozelidae (Adeloidea; Lepidoptera), and she has also recieved a SASB Travel award.
New grant and paper for Joanna Durrant
Joanna was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment to explore the impact of artificial light at night on invertebrate behaviour, physiology and community composition. Joanna has also just had her second manuscript arising from her Masters accepted in PeerJ
New grant for Yasaman Alavi
Yasaman was awarded a Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment to explore in more detail the effects of The evolution of facultative parthenogenesis in the Australian spiny leaf insect, Extatosoma tiaratum.
Success for Yasaman
In 2015 Yasaman was awarded both a Drummond Travel Award and a grant from the Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment.
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