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Opportunities for scientists—November 2022

Academy opportunities Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund – Strategic Element

The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), in collaboration with the Australian Academy of Science, will deliver the Australian Government’s $18.2 million Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund – Strategic Element, a key part of the new $60.2 million GSTDF fund.

Fellows update—November 2022

Honours and awards to Fellows

Professor Glenda Halliday FAA FAHMS – New South Wales Scientist of the Year

Professor Maria Makrides FAA FAHMS – South Australian Scientist of the Year

Professor Geordie Williamson FAA FRS – Excellence in Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Chemistry or Physics, NSW Premier's Prizes for Science & Engineering

Professor Hala Zreiqat AM FAA FTSE FAHMS – 2022 TAKREEM Laureate in the Scientific and Technological Achievement category

Remembering Dr Alec Costin, the father of Australian high mountain ecology

Dr Alec Costin AM FAA devoted his life to learning about and protecting Australia’s unique ecosystems.

Academy Fellow Dr Alec Costin devoted his life to learning about and protecting Australia’s unique ecosystems. He was an international authority on the ecology of high mountain and high latitude ecosystems, and made major contributions to the flora of the Snowy Mountains area.

‘Pure joy’: nine marine, soil and plant biologists awarded 2023 Thomas Davies Research Grants

(top from left) Dr Cheong Xin Chan, Dr Inka Vanwonterghem, Dr Onoriode Coast, Dr Chaoyu Li and Dr Mariana Mayer Pinto. (bottom) Dr Martin Breed, Dr Zahra Islam, Dr Joanna Melonek and Dr Maria Ermakova.

Nine early-career and mid-career researchers have been awarded the 2023 Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology.

Elephants, buffalo and baboons: the wild side of the Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship

Fitting a prototype aversive geofencing collar to an Asian elephant in Sri Lanka, with local colleagues from the National Institute of Fundamental Studies.

Not only did Dr Benjamin Allen have to contend with having his lunch stolen by samango monkeys while fulfilling his Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship, there were also the matters of civil unrest and the outbreak of a pandemic.

Australia’s leading scientists welcome government response to Samuel review

The cave-dwelling tree frog, Litoria cavernicola, is not currently endangered but is one of many frog species with a limited distribution which increases their risk of future decline. Photo: David Clode, Unsplash.

Using smell to disguise vulnerable plants, and protecting frogs from fire: 2023 Max Day awards

(from left) Shawn Scott from the University of South Australia (photo: Dr Topa Petit), and Patrick Finnerty from the University of Sydney.

Margaret Middleton Fund recipients to protect fairywrens, mountain frogs and culturally significant species

Left to right: Dr Shaina Russell from Macquarie University, Ariana La Porte from Monash University and Emma Carmichael from James Cook University.

Wastewater and AI to plan for pandemics: WH Gladstones Population and Environment Fund

Dr Xuan Li from the University of Technology Sydney Awardee Dr Xuan Li, University of Technology Sydney Transforming Australians’ health impact prediction due to COVID-19 using artificial intelligence

Stories for summer: Academy Fellows reveal their reading, listening and viewing recommendations

Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths and Professor Jonathan Carapetis are two of the many Fellows who have shared their recommendations for summer reading, listening and viewing.

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