Information on scholarships, travel awards and prize guidelines
Conference Prizes (2007)
Student awards presented at the joint NZFSS and ASL conference, December 2007:
NZFSS STUDENT
PRIZES
SIL Trust prize for best conference talk ($500)
Cynthia Winkworth (University of Otago): Native plants reduce pathogens in run-off: A manipulative experiment
SEQ Water Prize ($500)
Amber Sinton (University of Canterbury): Benthic communities of stock water races on the Canterbury Plains: How do they correspond to natural streams?
SIL Trust prize for best Masters or Honours talk ($150)
Helen Warburton (University of Canterbury): Effects of low stream flows on invertebrate communities.
SIL Trust prize for best poster ($150)
Francis Magbanua (University of Otago): Community responses of stream macroinvertebrates to conventional, integrated and organic farming practices in the South Island of NZ.
SPONSORED
PRIZES
Best
Paper on a Conservation Topic presented at the Conference
Amy Whitehead (University of Canterbury): Assessing habitat suitability for species with fragmented distributions: How do we determine potential whio range?
Best Conservation Poster (Department of Conservation)
Brenda Aldridge (University of Waikato): Restoring habitat of giant kokopu populations in urban streams, Hamilton City.
Best paper on an Applied Topic (Golder NZ Award, $150)
Rasmus Gabrielson (University of Otago): Are trace element signatures in trout eggs stable over time – wildlife monitoring using natural trace elements.
Best poster on an Applied Topic (Golder NZ Award, $150)
Scott Hardie (DPI, Tasmania): Water level manipulation in lakes Crescent and Sorell Tasmania, Australia, to assist spawning of the threatened golden galaxias: a strategy to mitigate impacts of drought-induced habitat alterations.
Guidelines for Student Presentations
Some excellent guidelines for students have been produced by the Australian Society for Limnology (ASL). We have adapted this years judging protocol in accordance with these guidelines and you can see what the judges will be marking you on here: Posters and Oral presentations.
Conference Travel Funding for Students
NZFSS offers funding to assist students to get to the yearly Freshwater Sciences conference. Information about this can be obtained from Brian Sorrell, NZFSS Secretary/Treasurer.
1. Give Brian Sorrell your name and what Uni you're at either before or during the conference.
2. You have to be presenting either a talk or a poster, and you have to be a member. (How to join)
3. There is $100 per person available up to a max of 12 people in 2004 (the amount each year is half of the interest earned on NZFSS bank accounts).
4. If there are more than 12, those that have come the furthest get first priority.
5. Funds are usually distributed after the conference.
Overseas Travel Funding
Freshwater Sciences may be able to help you get to overseas conferences. Check out the details about the S.I.L. 1987 Trust Fund Travel Award here
Scholarships and Jobs
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