2009 Education Award Winner:
The Education Award Panel has selected Jacquomo Monk for the Australasian Hydrographic
Society Education Award 2009.
The Australasian Hydrographic Society Patron, Vice-Admiral Chris Ritchie RAN(Retd.), presented the 2009 AHS Educational Award to recipient Jacquomo Monk at a luncheon in his honour hosted by Educational Award Committee Chair Dan Fitzhenry on 10th May 2010. The financial component of the Award had been made earlier in the year. Jacquomo was passing through Sydney on his way home from the GeoHab Conference recently held in Wellington, NZ.
The
title of his PhD research project being undertaken at the School of Life and
Environmental Sciences, Deakin University is "Understanding demersal
fish-habitat associations using video observations and sonar imaging".
The
project utilises the recent advances in underwater remote sensing (e.g. acoustic
positioning, multibeam sonar and remotely operated underwater video) to
generate detailed remotely sensed data to investigate the spatial relationships
between seafloor characteristics and marine coastal fishes in southwest
Victoria. Innovative spatially explicit predictive modelling techniques will be
applied to gain greater understanding of these relationships. The
resultant models will enable us to improve our understanding of the spatial distribution and
complexity of habitat requirements for coastal marine fish species. The
subsequent information is essential to better manage these
vulnerable, rare and ecologically important communities.
2008 Education Award Winner:
The
winner of the Australasian Hydrographic Society Education Award 2008 was
Malcolm Lindsay who is working towards a PhD at the University of Melbourne
within the Zoology Department and his project satisfies all the parameters of
the AHS Education Award.
The title of his
research project is: "The larval recruitment and oceanographic dynamics of
the Wilson's Promontory Marine National Park,
Australia".
The research
data should provide significant aid to marine park managers and will be of
particular value in the case of an oil spill in the containment and clean-up
operations.
The project is
directly linked to Parks Victoria, the marine park management body, encouraging
real outcomes for marine park management.
2007 Education Award Winner:
The Education Board
Award Panel is pleased to announce the selection of Lawrence Bishop as the
winner of the 2007 Australasian Hydrographic Society Education
Award.
Lawrence is working
towards his Cat. A in Hydrography at the University of Otago in New Zealand. His
research involves the evaluation of current hydrographic methods and
equipment.
There were 12 worthy
applicants for the Education Award in 2007.
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