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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.

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.

Dec 20

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.

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