Award-Winning LFP Postgraduates

Several LFP postgraduates have recently won awards for their research and its presentation:

Dorothy Turner
Winner 2010 South Australian Spatial Excellence Awards (SASEA) Postgraduate Research Award for her PhD completed in 2009: Fire in Arid and Semi-Arid Australia 1998-2004. Supervisors were Bertram Ostendorf and Megan Lewis.

Alice Baker
Winner 2010 South Australian Spatial Excellence Awards (SASEA) Undergraduate/Honours Research Award for her Honours research completed in 2009: Spectral Sensing of Soils Using the HyLogger Core Scanner. Supervisors were Megan Lewis and David Chittleborough.

The University of Adelaide Spatial Information Group
Won most of the education and research SASEA awards for the past 5 years, demonstrating that we dominate this field in SA, through quality of research and numbers of active researchers in spatial information sciences. Some of these SA winners have gone on to win Asia-Pacific Spatial excellence Awards (Clarke- Postgraduate; Lewis - Education & Professional Development).

Erika Lawley
Best Poster in School of Earth & Environmental Sciences inaugural postgraduate poster presentation - Letting the Landscape Speak for Itself - Vegetation dynamics across the arid zone.

Victoria Marshall
Nature Conservation Society of SA Field Research Grant and Nature Foundation SA Student Research Grant for her PhD research: Mapping and modelling the invasive weed species, Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) in the Australian arid zone.

Adam Kilpatrick
Top-up stipend awarded by Pastoral Board SA to support Adam's PhD research: Rangeland condition monitoring using remotely-sensed cross-fence comparisons.