2025 AMSA Award Winners!!
AMSA Jubilee Award 2025
This award recognises excellence in marine research and is presented to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to marine research in Australia.
Neville Barrett
University of Tasmania
The 2025 Jubilee Award winner is Associate Professor Neville Barrett from the University of Tasmania, a leading figure in marine science with over three decades of pioneering research in reef ecology and marine conservation, spanning continental shelf, coastal, and estuarine systems.
AMSA Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award 2025
This award was established in 2020 and is presented to an early or mid-career scientist in recognition of their outstanding research and academic achievements in marine science and the translation of their research for engagement outside of academia and mentoring of other young scientists.
Scott Bennett
University of Tasmania
The 2025 Emerging Leader in Marine Science is Dr Scott Bennett, a senior researcher in temperate marine ecology at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
AMSA Melissa George Excellence in Sea Country Award 2025
This award was inaugurated at the AMSA 2022 Conference in Cairns and is intended to recognise the outstanding contribution or leadership potential of an Indigenous marine scientist, ranger, communicator, or educator to the advancement of marine science and knowledge in Australia.
The 2025 recipient of the Melissa George Excellence in Sea Country Award is Mibu Fischer, a Noonucal, Ngugi and Goenpul saltwater researcher from Quandamooka Country and a distinguished marine ethnoecologist.
AMSA Allen Award 2025
This award is intended to recognise an outstanding postgraduate student by providing financial support to attend the upcoming AMSA conference, giving the student the opportunity to gain experience and contacts.
Clement Tremblin
Edith Cowan University
The 2025 Allen Award winner is Clement Tremblin, a Master’s student at the Centre for Marine Ecosystems Research at Edith Cowan University, where his research is focussed on the thermal tolerance of Posidonia australis seedlings along the Western Australian coast.
AMSA Allen Indigenous Award 2025
This award is intended to recognise an outstanding Indigenous postgraduate student by providing financial support to attend the upcoming AMSA conference, giving the student the opportunity to gain experience and contacts.
Kyah Chewying
University of Wollongong
The 2025 Allen Indigenous Award winner is Kyah Chewying, a Walbunja Yuin woman and PhD student at the University of Wollongong, where her research is focussed on braiding Indigenous oral histories and habitat mapping to
understand urchin barrens.