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Winners & Finalists For 2002
Research & Innovation
- Prize for Industry
- Finalists
- Thales Underwater Systems Pty Ltd
- Critical Thinking
- Winner
- Robert Morrison
- For 'Trust Me, I'm a Science Communicator'.
- Finalists
- Anina Rich , Jason Mattingley
- For research into synaesthesia – an unusual mixing of the senses perceptual experience – which uses novel, indirect measures and new brain imaging technology to verify the existence of this entirely subjective phenomenon.
- Mary Rogers , Ian Glendon
- For research refuting claims in published studies and popular books of an association between blood type and personality.
- Fiona Fidler
- For research investigating the consequences of failing to apply scientific method in science research through reliance on a flawed statistical methodology – Null Hypothesis Significance Testing.
- Robert Holden
- For Bunyips – 'Australia's folklore of fear'.
- Engineering Innovation
- Finalists
- Hatch Associates Pty Ltd
- Biodiversity Research
- Finalists
- Threatened Mammal Research Team
- For research challanging ideas on the decline of Australian mammals
- Bruce Maslin
- For a national collaborative research project producing the most comprehensive account ever of Acacia, Australia's largest flowering plant genus.
- Roger Kitching
- For development of widely used standard protocols which allow super-diverse insects and their relatives to be used as sensitive tools for environmental assessment.
- ICT Innovation
- Winner
- Seeing Machines faceLab Project
- For development of 'faceLAB'.
- Finalists
- Optical Fibre Technology Centre Technology Centre
- For fabrication of microstructured polymer optical fibres.
- Wayne Piekarski
- For research designed to implement the real-time capture and visualisation of 3D information using newly developed interaction techniques with innovative hardware and software.
- Research Ethics
- Finalists
- Craig Fry
- For the development of a research and advocacy program designed to encourage social change around the profile of ethics in public health in Australia.
- Barry Maley
- For research published in the book Family and Marriage in Australia on the course of sexual morality, marriage and family life in Australia over the last 40 years.
- Scientific Research
- Finalists
- Levon Khachigian
- For innovative research that dramatically increases our understanding of the fundamental molecular mechanisms that lead to the inappropriate expression of harmful genes in vascular cells, and for generating novel DNA-based drugs that block arterial renarr
- Matthew Colless
- For research involving the measurement of redshifts of the largest galaxy sample ever observed in the Universe, leading to precise measurements of fundamental cosmological parameters and the first ever accurate measurement of the density of the Universe.
- Environmental Research
- Winner
- Eric Kennedy , Bogdan Dlugogorski
- For innovative research which enables ozone-depleting substances, especially CFCs, to be converted into environmentally benign compounds with an inherent economic value.
- Finalists
- Richard Norris
- For innovative research, over almost 30 years, which has made a fundamental contribution to widely-used biological monitoring methods and programs for rivers and wetlands in Australia.
- Ross Jeffree
- For research into the potential threat to resident estuarine crocodiles in Kakadu National Park posed by long term use of lead ammunition in the hunting of fauna.
Science Communication & Journalism
- Environmental Education Program
- Promotion of Science
- Finalists
- Science and Technology Awareness Raising Peer Tutoring Program
- Science Drama Awards
- Sally Edwards
- For dedicated, highly effective voluntary work in public science promotion programs and in supporting communication links between the scientific and general communities in Western Australia.
- Gordon Grigg
- For the promotion of a scientifically based vision for Australia's rangelands, in which increased value of kangaroo products leads to increased ecological and economic sustainability.
- Science Book Prize
- Winner
- Ian Plimer
- A Short History of Planet Earth
- Finalists
- James Woodford
- The Secret Life of Wombats
- Alex Bevan , John de Laeter
- Meteorites: a journey through space and time
- Tom Griffiths
- Forests of Ash: an environmental history
- Stephen Martin
- The Whales' Journey
- Engineering Journalism
- Winner
- Peter Lewis
- For a series of reports detailing the successful application of engineering solutions to a range of diverse challenges facing Australia's agri-business.
- Finalists
- Natasha Mitchell ,Lynne Malcolm ,Judy Rapley
- For Ideas With Wings.
- Garth Montgomery
- For Robo Crop: inside our AI labs.
- Gerard Ryle,Harvey Grennan,Jane Burton Taylor
- For Towers of Trouble.
- Environmental Journalism
- Winner
- North to Nowhere
- Finalists
- Peter Fisher
- For a series of articles on environmental and related science themes.
- Gerard Ryle
- For Waste Lands.
- Michael Southwell
- For a series of investigative reports exposing the serious environmental issues associated with large alumina refineries operating in Western Australia.
- Paul Willis
- For How Green Is My Dollar?.
- James Woodford
- For a sustained body of work reporting on environmental issues, including investigative story-breaking reports, prominent exclusive stories and in-depth feature articles.
- Health and Medical Research Journalism
- Winner
- For 'The Gene Journey'.
- Finalists
- Lisa Upton , Casandra Hill
- For 'The Ultimate Cure'.
- Bob Beale
- For awareness-raising feature articles reporting on stem cell research; on new insights into sex and gender; and on the potential health and therapeutic benefits of probiotic bacteria.
- Elizabeth Finkel
- For a report which, against light of the national debate about the desirability of embryonic stem cell research, questions the scientific accuracy of claims that adult tissue could supply cells with the same qualities as embryonic stem cells.
- Cheryl Jones
- For Flu d’etat, a feature article on Australian medial research into the 1918 Spanish influenza virus strain.
- Science Journalism
- Winner
- Norman Swan ,Katrina Bolton
- For The Case of Professor Hall.
- Finalists
- Wilson da Silva
- For Sudden Impact.
- Naomi Lumsdaine ,Lile Judickas
- For Secrets of Saint Marys.
- Pauline Newman
- For The Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa.
- Deborah Smith
- For three perceptive investigative reports on major developments in the debate on human embryonic stem cell research and cloning.