AMSA Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award
AMSA Allen Award for Outstanding Student
Annual Conference Student Prizes
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2020 AMSA Awards Winners!!
AMSA Jubilee Award 2020
First awarded in AMSA's Silver Jubilee Year (1988) our professional award recognises excellence in marine research and is presented to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to marine research in Australia.
Professor Lynnath Beckley
Environment and Conservation Science
Murdoch University
This year's Jubilee Award winner is Professor Lynnath Beckley, Environment and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, for her work on ocean and coastal environments in Western Australia and the Indian Ocean. Lynnath has an outstanding research record across fields as diverse as larval fish communities and biological oceanography to human use of coastlines. Lynnath pioneered the research to collect baseline information on human use patterns across marine protected areas and has established standard methodology that can be applied in monitoring programs. Establishing these benchmarks has informed the development and management of marine protected areas such as Ningaloo and the Kimberley, and supports ongoing monitoring through these protocols.
Lynnath had the vision to conceive the second International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE-2), which retraced the original IIOE, and the drive to pull together an international team to make the expedition a reality. IIOE-2 included investigations on multi-decadal ecosystem changes, the distribution of microbes, bioogeochemistry, pelagic food webs, and bioptics related to satellite remote sensing of the south-east Indian Ocean. Lynnath is an inspirational leader and mentor who encourages collaboration among students and colleagues. She invests heavily in ensuring her students go on to successful careers.
AMSA Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award 2020
This is a new award established in 2020 presented to an early or mid-career scientist in recognition of their outstanding reserach and academic achievements in marine science and the translation of their research for engagement outside of academia and mentoring of other young scientists.
Dr Katherine Dafforn
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Macquarie University
Sydney Harbour Research Program
Sydney Institute of Marine Science
This year AMSA is pleased to introduce a new award to recognise excellence in marine research by an early or mid-career scientist. The inaugural Emerging Leader in Marine Science Award has been awarded to Dr Katherine Dafforn, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University and Deputy Director of the Sydney Harbour Research Program, Sydney Institute of Marine Science. Katherine has expertise in benthic ecology, microbiology and ecotoxicology and has an outstanding record in applying her research to managing human impacts in marine ecosystems. She is an excellent science communicator and mentor for both postgraduate students and postdoctoral scientists and has established a model for conducting training workshops for early career scientists.