Marilyn Fox Award for Best Inaugural Presentation

Eryn Yiyin Chang, James Cook University – ‘Distribution, Genomics and Monitoring of the Endangered Mahogany Gliders (Petaurus gracillis)’

Wiley Student Prize for Outstanding Student Spoken Presentation 

1st – Kaylar Del Simone, University of Queensland – ‘Free-ranging behaviour of an Australian critical weight range marsupial’

2nd – Charlotte Patterson, Queensland University of Technology – ‘How uncertain and unbiased is our knowledge of Antarctic biodiversity’

3rd – Ruby E. Stephens, Macquarie University – ‘Pollination across flowering plants: major evolutionary patterns and environmental relationships’

ESA Student Prize for Outstanding Speed Talk Presentation 

1st – Caitlyn Forster, University of Sydney – ‘The Great Australian Bake Off: identifying trends and opportunities in the Threatened Species Bake Off’

2nd – Meghan Shaw, Deakin University – ‘Can an image capture a heart? The impact of wildlife imagery on viewer emotions and pro-conservation behaviours’

3rd – Frederick Dadzie, University of NSW – ‘Native and commercial microbial inoculants show equal effects on plant growth in dryland ecosystems’

ESA Student Prize for Outstanding Poster Presentation

1st – Jennifer Evans, Australian National University – ‘Testing explanations for population decline in an iconic Australian bird using novel application of genomics’

2nd – Erin Bok, University of Tasmania – ‘Forty–spotted pardalotes and manna gum: joining the spots to save an Australian endangered bird species’

3rd – Atalaya Ferrari, Royal Melbourne Insitute of Technology – ‘Carbon dynamics in Victoria’s Mountain Ash forests: a new method for soil organic carbon estimation’

ESA EMR Student Prize for Outstanding Spoken Presentation on Management or Restoration

Dana Lanceman, University of NSW – ‘Integrating ecology and engineering perspectives to monitor salt marsh growth at a blue carbon restoration site using drones and image classification’

ESA EMR Student Prize for Outstanding Poster Presentation on Management or Restoration

Shawn Peddle, Flinders University – ‘Agricultural land-use legacies present unique challenges for the restoration of soil microbiota’

AFF Student Prize for Outstanding Spoken Presentation on the Biology or Cultivation of an Australian Plant

Ali Babington, Murdoch University – ‘Flowers and diversity over lawn: quantifying what people want to see in urban plantings’

AFF Student Prize for Outstanding Poster Presentation on the Biology or Cultivation of an Australian Plant

Joe Atkinson, University of New South Wales – ‘Trait–mediated community assembly during experimental grassland restoration is altered by planting year rainfall’

Open Awards:

Bush Heritage Australia ‘Right Way Science’ Award (Joint Winners)

Bridget Campbell, Macquarie University and Yirralka Rangers – ‘Reconnecting Country and culture through cross-cultural fauna surveys with Indigenous rangers, elders and Youth

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Leigh-Ann Wooley and Pius Gregory, WWF – ‘Cross-cultural collaboration leads to improved understanding of the rare spectacled hare-wallaby in the West Kimberley’

Bush Heritage Australia ‘Indigenous-led Science’ Award

Winner – Lynda Maybanks, Wirrinyah First Nations Conservation Services – ‘Wirrinyah ‘coming back: Caring for Country, language, and culture.

Highly Commended – Teagan Goolmer, University of Melbourne – ‘Increasing the recognition of culturally significant species and Indigenous-led management’

Highly Commended – Taylor Fitzgerald, Jared Brown, Mishelle Toms, Jason Groves, Department of Planning & Environment – ‘Healthy Country for Glossy Black-Cockatoos

ESA Austral Award

Dr Judy Dunlop, University of Western Australia – ‘The hitchhiker’s guide to Australian conservation: a parasitological perspective on fauna translocations‘.

ESA Members’ Service Prize

Dr Emilie Ens, Macquarie University