Scholarships and supporters
Heron Island Research Scholarship
The Heron Island Research Scholarship is a merit-based scheme. It promotes early career research programs at HIRS by helping researchers from The University of Queensland either develop new research projects at the station or expand existing ones.
2019 Recipients:
Chantel Say – Model-based mapping of the Great Barrier Reef using oceanographic variables that influence coral cover and structure to predict benthic ecological assemblages on the reef.
Kita Williams – The effect of diet on the Behaviour of Choanocyte Cells in the demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica.
Spotlight: The Science of Shark Smells
PhD candidate Heather Middleton received a Heron Island Research scholarship to continue her work investigating pheromone utilisation in elasmobranchs. Heather collects epaulette sharks on Heron Reef and houses them on our deck space to explore the link between their olfactory systems and chemical ecology. Specifically, she is interested in the seasonal variation in behavioural and physiological responses of the species to certain chemical cues.
MBRS Scholarship in partnership with Sibelco Australia
The MBRS Scholarship in partnership with Sibelco Australia is a merit-based scheme that supports research in any discipline conducted at MBRS on North Stradbroke Island.
2019 Recipients:
Leonie Huijser - Acoustic communication and social structure of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Moreton Bay.
Clarisse Louvard - The Missing Link: the role of planktonic and neustonic molluscs in parasitic transmission to large Australian pelagic fishes.
Lara Pogson-Manning - Indicators of male fitness in the songs of humpback whales on the Australian east coast and the potential impacts of anthropogenic noise on their mating system.
(L-R) Leonie Huijser, Clarisse Louvard and Lara Pogson-Manning
Exciting changes are in store for the Station Scholarships, in response to feedback from our schools and previous applicants. Watch this space!
Supporters
Both HIRS and MBRS would like to sincerely thank all their supporters in 2019.
MBRS would like to thank:
Dr Geoff Nette from Independent Marine Biochemical Research (IMBCR), who has generously donated several teaching and technical books on protein purification, HPLC and proteomics for use with the station HPLC machine.
Professor Richard Zimmer from the University of California, who donated researcher field equipment, several Gilson micropipettes, and anemometers.
Sibelco Australia, who have provided generous support for the ‘MBRS in partnership with Sibelco Scholarships’ from 2016 – 2019.