Student International Travel Scholarship

Contact person

Dr Michael Hammer
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin NT
T: 08 8999 8253
Email: michael.hammer@nt.gov.au

This scholarship has been made available to support a student to present an oral paper at an international conference that is relevant to the activities of the Society, in the financial year following the closing date (note: due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and uncertainty reasonable flexibility will be available here).

Value of Award

Return airfare and a living allowance up to a total value of $3,000.
Full registration fee to the next ASFB annual conference.

Closing date for applications

31st May
The successful applicant/s will generally be notified by 30th June, with a formal announcement made at the ASFB conference dinner

Conditions

The award is open to students who are current financial members of ASFB at the time of the award presentation and who have been financial members of ASFB for at least 12 months prior to applying for the award. Conditions

The applicant must be enrolled as a post-graduate student at an Australian or New Zealand University or have graduated from an Australian or New Zealand University within the past 12 months.
A written paper (not just an abstract) must be submitted.
The Executive Council may decide not to award the Scholarship in a particular year.
The Scholarship may be awarded jointly.
The rules for this Scholarship may be amended by the Executive Council. One years notice of any amendments shall be given to Society members.

Process for application

Download the application form (now only need one application for all awards applying for) from the ASFB Member’s Only Page.
Students submitting an application for one/multiple awards must include the application form and a letter of support from their supervisor.
All applications must be submitted to awards@asfb.org.au

Judging process

Papers are judged by a Scholarship Committee comprising three people. The Scholarship Committee may co-opt external referees to assist in this process.
If the highest ranked papers are judged to be of equal merit, the Committee may require applicants to present their papers orally.

Past Scholarship Recipients

Date	Name	Organisation	State	Research topic
2023	Tanika Shalders	Southern Cross University	NSW	Nutritional quality of eastern school whiting (Sillago flindersi) under contemporary and future environmental conditions
2022	Nina Wooton	University of Adelaide	SA	Low abundance of microplastics in commercially caught fish across southern Australia” published in the journal Environmental Pollution (2021, 290: e118030).
2021	Not awarded (COVID travel restrictions)	-	-	-
2020	Charlotte Birkmanis	University of Western Australia	WA	Shark conservation hindered by lack of habitat protection” published in the journal Global Ecology and Conservation (2020, 21 e00862).
2019	Oliver Jewell	Murdoch University	WA	Cryptic habitat use of white sharks in kelp forest revealed by animal-borne video
2018	Tiffany Sih	James Cook University	QLD	Deep-reef fish assemblages of the Great Barrier Reef shelf-break (Australia)
2017	Paloma Matis	University of Technology Sydney	NSW	Latitudinal variation in behavioural patterns and social group structure of range expanding coral reef fishes.
2016	Jordan Matley	James Cook University	QLD	Diet-tissue discrimination factors and turnover of C and N isotopes in tissues of an adult predatory coral reef fish Plectropomus leopardus.
2015	Mario Espinoza	James Cook University	QLD	Partial migration of marine predators: is habitat the key?
2014	Rohan Brooker	James Cook University	QLD	You are what you eat: diet-induced chemical crypsis in a coral-feeding reef fish
2013	Timothy Emery	University of Tasmania	TAS	Fishing for revenue: how leasing quota can be hazardous to your health
2012	Joel Williams	University of Melbourne	VIC	Influence of freshwater flows on the distribution of eggs and larvae of black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri within a drought-affected estuary
2010	Andrew McKinley	University of NSW	NSW	Strong links between metal contamination, habitat modification and estuarine larval fish distribution
2009	Danielle Dixson	James Cook University	QLD	Ocean acidification disrupts the innate ability of fish to detect predator olfactory cues
2008	Jodie Kemp	University of Melbourne	VIC	Otolith shape & chemistry to distinguish cod species (Genus Pseudophycis) in the diet of Australian fur seals.
2007	Matthew Taylor	University of NSW	NSW	A predatory impact model and targeted stocking approach for optimal stocking of mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus).”
2006	Anne Lee	James Cook University	QLD	Larval fish, Kiel Germany Mulloway biology, diet and migration with application to optimal densities for re-stocking estuaries.
2005	Travis Elsdon	University of Adelaide	SA	Anchorage, Alaska, USA, September 2005. “Fish migratory contingents identified by comparing otolith and ambient Sr:Ca over temporal scales
2003	Tim Dempster	University of Sydney	NSW	Attraction of wild fish to sea-cage fish farms in the south-western Mediterranean Sea: spatial and short-term temporal variability
2002	Alison King	Monash University	VIC	Attended the American Society for Ichthyologists and Herpetoligists Annual meeting in Kansas, USA July 2002
2001	David Crook	Charles Sturt University	NSW	The influence of spatial scale and habitat arrangement on diel patterns of habitat use by two lowland river fishes. Attended the American Society for Ichthyologists and Herpetoligists Annual meeting in Kansas, USA July 2002
2000	Jeremy Hindell	University of Melbourne	VIC	Effects of predatory fish on the assemblage structure of small fish in seagrass and unvegetated sand habitats. Attended the Indo Pacific Fish Conference in Durban South Africa in 2001.