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Research Grants - Marine Ornithology Group (MOG)

Grant Name 'Title of project.' Amount ($) Name (Position)

2010

1st World Seabird Conference – Student Travel Award. $800USD Awarded to Mark Carey (PhD student)

2009

ANZ Trustees Foundation – Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘The effect of effect of human interactions on the reproductive success of Short-tailed Shearwaters breeding on Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania.’ $5,270 Awarded to Mark Carey (PhD student)

2008

ANZ Charitable Trust Australia - Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘Effect of human interactions on the reproductive success of Short-tailed Shearwaters breeding on Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania.’ $5,000 Awarded to Mark Carey (PhD student)

2007

Birds Australia - Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award ‘Effect of human interactions on the reproductive success of Short-tailed Shearwaters breeding on Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania.’ $450 Awarded to Mark Carey (PhD student)

ANZ Charitable Trust Australia – Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘Effect of human interactions on the reproductive success of Short-tailed Shearwaters breeding on Great Dog Island, Furneaux Group, Tasmania.’ $5,000 Awarded to Mark Carey (PhD student)

ANZ Charitable Trust Australia – Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘Determining effects of differences in dietary resources in Silver Gulls (Larus novaehollandiae) using stable-isotope analyses and plasma biochemical parameters.’ $2,000 Awarded to Heidi Auman (PhD student)

Birds Australia (Victoria) ‘The genetic characteristics of the Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus in Victoria.’ $1,500 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

2006

ANZ Charitable Trust Australia – Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘Effects of anthropogenic food resources on the body condition, chemistry and stable-isotopes of blood in Silver Gulls Larus novaehollandiae in Tasmania.’ $2,000 Awarded to Heidi Auman (PhD candidate)

Nature Foundation SA Inc. ‘Morphologic and genetic relationships of the geographically isolated Pacific Gull Larus pacificus populations in Australia.’ $2,000 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

Nature Foundation SA Inc. ‘Genetic characteristics of the Pacific Gulls in South Australia.’ $500 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

2005

Birds Australia (Tasmania) ‘Determining effects of differences in dietary resources in Silver Gulls (Larus novaehollandiae) using stable-isotope analyses and plasma biochemical parameters’ $1,500 Awarded to Heidi Auman (PhD candidate)

Birds Australia (Victoria) ‘The genetic characteristics of the Pacific Gull Larus pacificus pacificus in Victoria.’ $1,000 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

ANZ Charitable Trust Australia – Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment ‘The morphological and genetic relationships of the geographically isolated Pacific Gull Larus pacificus populations in Australia.’ $1,500 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

Nature Foundation SA Inc. ‘Morphological and genetic status of the Pacific Gull Larus pacificus in South Australia.’ $1,000 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

Birds Australia - Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award ‘Morphology and genetic relationships of the geographically isolated Pacific Gull Larus pacificus populations in Australia.’ $1,000 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

2004

Birds Australia (Victoria) ‘Genetic characteristics of the Pacific Gull Larus pacificus in Victoria’ $1,500 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

Birds Australia - Stuart Leslie Bird Research Award ‘Morphology and genetic relationships of the geographically isolated Pacific Gull Larus pacificus populations in Australia.’ $2,950 Awarded to Dr Bruce Robertson (PhD student)

2000

La Trobe University Seeder Grant ‘Niche overlap and competition between Pacific Gulls and Kelp Gulls in northern Bass Strait’ $6,500 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair)

1999

La Trobe University Research Enhancement Grant ‘Ecology of Pacific Gulls in the Furneaux Group, Bass Strait’ $5,000 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair)

1998

Environment Australia (consultancy) ‘Evaluation of monitoring effort required to manage sustainable harvesting in an exploited seabird’ $29,940 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair, with Bradley and Wooller, Murdoch Univ., Perth).

1997

Australian Research Council Small Grants Scheme ‘Extra-pair paternity in a socially monogamous seabird, the short-tailed shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris, revealed by microsatellites.’ $19,922 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair)

La Trobe University Starter Grant ‘Factors affecting recruitment into the breeding population of a long-lived seabird, the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris.’ $4,500 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair)

1996

La Trobe University Starter Grant ‘Factors affecting recruitment into the breeding population of a long-lived seabird, the Short-tailed Shearwater Puffinus tenuirostris.’ $3,987 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair)

1995

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘The regulation of parental investment: Why do procellariiform seabirds overfeed their young?’ $97,000 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair, with Bradley and Wooller, Murdoch Univ., Perth).

1994

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘The processes of recruitment, pair-bond formation and maintenance in a population of long-lived vertebrates (short-tailed shearwaters).’ $106,000 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair, with Bradley and Wooller, Murdoch Univ., Perth).

1991

Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘Predicting life-time reproductive success in vertebrates: Variations in the quality of adults and eggs in a shearwater population’ $183,000 Awarded to Catherine Meathrel (LTUMOG Chair, with Bradley and Wooller, Murdoch Univ., Perth).

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