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BAMOS March 2017
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Prizes, prizes, prizes!
Linden Ashcroft, BAMOS Editor
It’ s award season in the Australian scientific community! Why not nominate yourself or a colleague for one of the prizes below:
Young Tall Poppy Science Awards
The prestigious annual Young Tall Poppy Science Awards aim to recognise the achievements of Australia’ s outstanding young scientific researchers and communicators.
Nominations are now open for all fields of science across all states and territories.
Applications are due at midnight AEST Sunday 9 April. Download the nomination form and view the selection criteria from the Young Tall Poppy website.
Prime Minister’ s Prizes for Science
Make sure great Australian science is recognised! Each year the Australian Government honours Australia’ s best scientists, innovators, and science teachers through the Prime Minister’ s Prizes for Science.
First stage nominations are due at 5pm AEST Wednesday 12 April. More information and the online nomination form, are available online.
Australian Academy of Sciences awards
Nominations for the Australian Academy of Sciences 2018 awards are now open. This includes awards recognising scientific excellence, research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships are now open.
The closing date for honorific awards is Thursday 20 April, the closing date for research conferences, research awards and travelling fellowships is Friday 1 June.
Australia Museum Eureka Prizes
Entries for the 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are now open!
There are 15 prizes on offer rewarding excellence in the fields of research & innovation; leadership; science engagement; and school science, including one new Eureka Prize – Excellence in Data Science.
View the full line-up and submit your entry through the Australia Museum. Entries close 7pm AEST Friday 5 May.
AMOS Uwe Radok Award for best PhD Thesis
Dr Uwe Radok was one of Australia’ s pioneers in meteorological and glaciological research. Becoming Head of the Department of Meteorology at the University of Melbourne in 1960, he played a leading role in the development of Australian Antarctic meteorology and glaciology.
In appreciation of Uwe Radok’ s achievements, AMOS makes an annual award for the best PhD thesis for the preceding two years in the fields of meteorology, oceanography, glaciology or climatology awarded in Australia. The thesis must be awarded by an Australian university.
To apply, please prepare a short scientific paper(< 2 pages including figures and references) summarising the key outcomes of their research, a pdf version of their thesis and full copies of the examiners reports.
This should be supported by a letter from the supervisor or Head of School which outlines why the PhD is considered outstanding.
Applications are due by Tuesday 30 May. More details are available on the AMOS website.
Images: Paul Holper, Monash University, Australia Museum