AMSA Allen Award

Year	Winner	University	Symposium Attended	City and Date	Presentation Title
2011	Emma Wilkie	Macquarie University	Marine Biodiversity 2011	Aberdeen, Scotland. September 25 - 30, 2011	Biotic resistance to the invasive oyster Crassostrea gigas is not presently weakened by oyster disease
2010	Kate Naughton	University of Melbourne	Evolution 2010	Portland, Oregon. June 25-29, 2010	Glacial connectivity in a coastal marine invertebrate: the Little Biscuit Star on the southern Australian coastline.
2009	Jessica André	University of Tasmania, TAFI	Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC) 2009 Symposium	Spain, 3-11 September 2009	Modelling the potential impact of climate change on octopus populations.
2008 joint winner	Alex Wyatt	University of Western Australia	11th International Coral Reef Symposium	Florida 7-11 July 2008	The role of oceanographic processes in the trophic ecology of coral reefs: linking reef biodiversity and biogeochemistry
2008 joint winner	Ben Pitcher	Macquarie University	Vocal Communication in birds and mammals	St Andrews Scotland	The onset of vocal recognition of mohers in Australian sea lion pups (Newphoca cinerea)
2008 joint winner	Ben Pitcher	Macquarie University	Acoustic communication by animals	Oregon State University, USA
2007	Alex Rattray	Deakin University	Coast GIS'07	Santander, Spain 8-10 October 2007 (#177 Summer 2008, p.17)	Coastal marine habitat mapping using multi-beam acoustics, video data and decision tree classifier on the temperate south-east Australian continental shelf.
2006	Inke Falkner	University of Sydney	The 12th International Echinoderm Conference and The 7th Larval Biology Symposium	Durham, New Hampshire USA 6-12 August 2006 and Coos Bay, Oregon 27 August - 1 September 2006 (#173 Spring 2006, p.18)	Are all brittle star eggs created equal?
2005	Krystyna Saunders	University of Tasmania	10th International Palaeolimnology Symposium	Duluth, Minnesota USA 26-29th June 2006 (#174 Summer 2007, p.xx)	Assessing human impacts on southeast Australian coastal lagoons: application of a diatom-nutrient transfer function
2004	Rebecca McIntosh	LaTrobe University	22nd Wakefield Symposium. Sea Lions of the World: Conservation and Research in the 21st Century	Anchorage, Alaska, USA. Sept 30- Oct 3, 2004 (#168 Summer 2005, p.33)	Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) pup production estimates and the age structure of breeding females at Seal Bay Conservation Park, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
2004	Belinda Thompson	University of Tasmania	4th International Conference on Marine Pollution and Ecotoxicology	Hong Kong 1-5 June 2004 (#168 Summer 2005, p.34)	Infaunal recruitment, hydrocarbon degradation and bioturbation in Antarctic marine sediments
2003	Adam Pope	Deakin University	Biennial Conference of the Estuarine Research Foundation	Seattle, USA. September 2003 (#164 Oct 2003, p.14)	Seagrass extent and decomposition in relation to freshwater flow and mouth closures of bar-blocked estuaries in southern Australia
2003	Brenda McDonald	James Cook University	15th Society of Mammalogy Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals	Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, 14 to 19 December 2003 (#163 July 2003, p.16)	Population structure and genetic diversity of the dugong around Australia
2002	Claire Bennett	University of Melbourne	5th International Larval Biology Conference	Vigo, Spain. September 2002 (#161 Jan 2003, p.40)	Carryover effects of larval exposure to heavy metal and delayed settlement on the performance of the bryozoan Bugula neritina.
2002	Megan Watson	University of New South Wales	5th International Larval Biology Conference	Vigo, Spain. September 2002 (#160 Oct 2002 p.10)	Settlement response of the common sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma in response to bacteria from the surface of coralline algae.
2001	Mary-Ann Lea	University of Tasmania	VIII SCAR International Symposium on Antarctic Biology in a Global Context	Amsterdam, Netherlands. August 2001 (#156 Oct 2001 p.8)	Inter-annual variability in the foraging activity of Antarctic fur seals in relation to the change in oceanographic conditions at the Kerguelen Archipelago, Indian Ocean, 1998-2000
2000	Nathan Knott	University of Sydney	30th Marine Benthic Ecology Meeting	New Hampshire, USA. March 16-18, 2001 (#155 July 2001 p.5)	[topic not title] Effects of orientation and transplantation on the growth of Pronax sp a common sponge on subtidal reefs around Sydney
2000	Napur Smith	University of Western Australia	Fourth International Seagrass Biology Workshop	Corsica 26 Sept-2 Oct 2000 (#155 July 2001 p.5)	Pollination ecology and canopy-water flow interactions in the seagrasses Posidonia australis and P. sinuousa.
1999	Naomi Parker	University of Tasmania/CSIRO	2nd European Phycological Congress	Italy. (#150 Apr 2000, p.8)	Toxic dinoflagellate bloom dynamics : the role of restying cysts
1999	Naomi Parker	University of Tasmania/CSIRO	8th International Conference on Applied Ecology	Italy.	High density cultivation of dinoflagellates : effects on growth, life history and toxin production
1999	Anne Trevena	James Cook University	2nd International Symposium on Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMS(P) and related Compounds	Netherlands. August 1999. (#149 Jan 2000, p.9)	Title to come!
1999	Leslie Brooker	Murdoch University	64th Meeting of the American Malacological Society	Pittburgh, USA. (#148 Oct1999, p.7)	Biomineralization in chiton teeth and its usefulness as a taxonomic character in the genus Acanthopleura Guilding, 1929 (Mollusca: Polyplacophora)
1998	Jo-Anne Cavanagh	Australian Institute of Marine Science	Modelling and Measuring the Vulnerability of Ecosystems at Regional Scales for use in Ecological Risk Assessment and Risk Management	Seattle, USA. August 1998 (#145 Jan 1999, p.7)	Ecological risk assessment and the North Queensland sugar industry
1998	Jo-Anne Cavanagh	Australian Institute of Marine Science	First International Symposium of Issues in Environmental Pollution - the State and Use of Science and Predictive Models	Denver USA. August 1998	Environmental and economic sustainability of chemical usage in the North Queensland sugar industry
1998	Paulina Selvakumara- swamy	University of Sydney	5th European Echinoderm Conference	Milan, Italy. September 1998 (#144 Oct 1998, p.4)	Unusual account of an ectoderm derived Coelom and the occurrence of Schizocoely in Ophiuroid larva
1997	Regina Counihan	University of Queensland	4th International Biotechnology Conference	Sorrento Italy. (#139 July 1997, p.20)	Analysis of abalone and Drosophila gene promoters electroporated into eggs and zygotes of the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina.