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2009 AWARD FOR RESEARCH ON THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED AUSTRALIAN VERTEBRATE SPECIES

Nominations for this award have closed.
The next call for applications will be in July 2009.

This award offers support for research on endangered Australian vertebrate species (endangered either locally or nationally) with the objective of understanding the causes of their decline and with a view to instituting, or improving, the management of the conditions necessary for the species’ recovery.

A total of $20,000 is available for allocation to one or more than one grant. Grants are GST exempt.

Applications should be limited to five pages and include a curriculum vitae, publications list, a brief outline of the project and a budget. Two referees reports should be attached to the application.

Criteria:

• Applicants should have a proven record of relevant research.
• Preference will be given to independent research workers whose research is not funded, or only partially funded, by a university or other institution.
• Applicants undertaking Masters and particularly PhD studies should ensure that their application identifies clearly the discreet aspect or research component of that larger study for which they are seeking funding support from this award
• Successful applicants will be required to give evidence of appropriate Ethics Committee approval

Areas of research funded to date include:

• Irwin’s turtle – locating and protecting nesting sites
• Pygmy blue tongue lizard – long term conservation
• Spotted-tailed quoll -habitat use of the species and its interactions with wild dogs
• Dingo – Australia’s top terrestrial predator and its role protecting the remaining native small mammal fauna
• Tasmanian devils and population decline from Devil Facial Tumour disease
• Maximising captive breeding success and conservation in the southern dibbler and dunnart species
• Changes in telomere length re the determination of the ages of free-living chondrichthyan populations
• The population and epidemiological dynamics associated with decline of woylies in Australia
• Wildlife general – protecting the prey with chemical camouflage
• Dispersal patterns and swimming behaviour of hatchling flatback turtles
• How to support malleefowl recruitment in a fragmented landscape
• Monitoring extinction of the northern quoll
• Gould's petrel
• Sandhill dunnarts WA
• The spotted tailed quoll
• Northern and southern corroboree frogs
• Conservation genetics and ecology of Victoria's earless dragons
• Competitive and predatory effects of the red fox on the spotted-tailed quoll
• Genetic marker studies of Leadbeater's possum
• Conservation genetics and ecology of the Gouldian finch
• Adaptive genetic variation in Australian island macropod populations
• The Julia Creek dunnart
• The south-eastern Australian brush-tailed rock wallaby
• Endangered frogs in south-eastern Queensland
• The impact of feral cats on the bilby in the channel country of western Queensland
• The transmission of toxoplasmosis from feral cats to native mammals
• Restoring the habitat for the broad-headed snake in the Sydney basin
• The conservation genetics of the northern quoll
• The translocation of hairy nosed wombats
• The genetic management of greater stick-nest rats
• A monitoring program for brush-tailed phascogales

For more information contact ac@science.org.au