2018 ACRS Research Awards

Each year the ACRS supports the research of up to five students through provision of the ACRS Research Awards. The most outstanding proposals are awarded the Terry Walker Prize ($4,000) or the Danielle Simmons Prize ($4,000). Up to three additional ACRS Research Awards of $2,500 each are also awarded.

Below we present you the recipients of the 2018 ACRS Research Awards. In the following pages, you can read articles contributed by each awardee.

Terry Walker Prize

MARDI McNEIL

The role of macroalgae genus Halimeda in provision of inter-reef benthic habitat in the Great Barrier Reef.

Danielle Simmons Prize

COULSON LANTZ

The combined effect of ocean acidification, seawater warming, and eutrophication on carbonate sediment dissolution and metabolism.

ACRS Awards

SHANNON McMAHON

The effects of temperature and elevated CO2 on reef mesopredators.

MIKAELA NORDBORG

Cumulative impacts of future climate conditions and heavy fuel oil on key life stages of the coral Acropora millepora.

KELSEY SANBORN

Paleoecology of the last interglacial Tantabiddi Reef of Western Australia.