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Winners & Finalists For 2004
Research & Innovation
- Prize for Industry
- Critical Thinking
- Winner
- Cheryl Capra
- For development of 'Touching the Future - educating children towards a rational view of their world'.
- Finalists
- Danielle Einstein
- For original research demonstrating that superstitions and magical beliefs are highly predictive of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
- Geoffrey Isbister, Michael Gray
- For 'The Australian Myth of Necrotic Arachnidism and White-tail Spiders'
- Biodiversity Research
- Water Research
- Winner
- Ivor Stuart, Alan Williams
- For innovative research leading to the development of the 'Carp Jumping Cage'.
- ICT Innovation
- Inspiring Science
- Winner
- Peter Abolfathi
- For development and design of a portable Rehabilitation Glove.
- Interdisciplinary Scientific Research
- Finalists
- For dramatically expanding medical practice horizons through the development of chemical spectroscopic techniques and applying them in biomedical, biological and biotechnological research.
- For ground-breaking research on the use of conotoxins (peptide toxins from Cone snails) as novel probes to investigate ion channel structure and function.
- Environmental Sustainability of Graingrowing
- Winner
- Christopher Franco, Justin Coombs, Philip Michelsen, Vanessa Conn, Margaret Roper
- For innovative and exciting research into the use of natural microbial resources (endophytic actinomycetes) as a sustainable alternative to chemical fungicides and pesticides to control plant diseases and increase the grain yields in cereal crops.
- Research Ethics
- Winner
- Justin Oakley, Steve Clarke
- For research that shows how ethical considerations such as respect for autonomy, informed consent, and professional accountability, establish that comparative information on the clinical performance of individual surgeons should be made available to patie
- Finalists
- Merle Spriggs
- For research that identifies, illustrates and examines complex issues in human subject research and offers a strategy for appreciating, in a vivid way, the implications of research participation.
- Annette Braunack-Mayer, Wendy Rogers
- For research designed to help general practitioners achieve high ethical standards that contribute to good health care.
- Scientific Research
- Finalists
- Veena Sahajwalla
- For highly original research that has developed a profound understanding of high-temperature behaviour of complex materials (refractories) used in new advanced continuous casting of steel.
- Peter Tuthill
- For innovative research that has successfully pioneered a novel approach to high resolution astronomical imaging that has delivered the finest detail ever attained in images of celestial bodies at infrared wavelengths and revealed phenomena completely new
- Environmental Research
- Winner
- Geoff Rigby, Alan Taylor, Gustaaf Hallegraeff
- For research addressing one of the most intractable yet critical problems of exotic species introduction in Australia and globally – preventing translocation and introduction of harmful marine organisms via ship’s ballast water.
- Finalists
- For development of a comprehensive Australian Estuaries Package to assist industry, resource managers, local councils, scientists and community groups in better understanding and managing Australia’s estuaries.
- For using satellite-based remote sensing systems to develop a new integrated approach in the assessment and monitoring of nationally significant environmental issues.
School Science
- Science Teaching
- Finalists
- Jeanette Rothapfel
- For her significant, long-term contributions to science education at school, district, state and national levels by inspiring students from K-12 via hundreds of discovery-based enrichment experiences using the curiosity-rich, motivational themes of space.
- Kerry Ayre
- For energy, enthusiasm and inspiration as the driving force behind the development and establishment of the inaugural Student Research EXPO at St Joseph’s Catholic High School in 2003.
Science Communication & Journalism
- Environmental Sustainability Education
- Winner
- The Living Smart program
- Reed New Holland Eureka Science Book Prize
- Finalists
- Anna-Eugenia Binnie
- For a manuscript, the research for which was completed at Macquarie University as a PhD thesis, that unfolds the history of atomic energy and nuclear science in Australia.
- Michael Burton
- For a manuscript that is a journey through the Universe and a story about the role of ecosystems therein, with each chapter looking at the operation of a different sized system.
- David Ellyard
- For a manuscript that provides an absorbing, easy paced insight into the big discoveries and ideas in science as they have developed over the last 500 years, and into the times and the people that created them.
- Aleks Terauds, Fiona Stewart
- For a manuscript that, with the assistance of beautiful and sensitive photography and natural history illustrations, explores the scientific dimensions of the Albatross in Australia’s Southern Ocean.
- Engineering Journalism
- Winner
- David Salt
- For 'Materials Monthly'.
- Finalists
- Tim Lee
- For 'Olive Harvest'.
- Environmental Journalism
- Finalists
- Simon Benson
- For 'ADI – The Last Stand'.
- Health and Medical Research Journalism
- Winner
- Sophie Scott
- For overall journalistic performance.
- Finalists
- Zoe Taylor
- For an outstanding six-part series on the human impact of research developments in fertility treatment.
- Jill Margo
- For overall journalistic performance in reporting the impact of medical research on the reproductive health of men.
- Jonica Newby , Paul Schneller , Ian Cuming
- For Brain Switch, a remarkable story that investigates how the left and right brain integrate.
- Science Journalism
- Winner
- Pemberton Sonya
- For Genius of Junk, a revealing and moving account of how, in a stroke of extraordinary and controversial foresight, Australian scientist Dr Malcolm Simons defied conventional wisdom and patented the use of 95% of the DNA of almost every species on earth.
- Ticky Fullerton , Linda Carroll, Anne Connolly , Jo Puccini , Peter Cronau , Sarah Curnow
- For 3 provoking reports on issues of national significance – the fate of Tasmania’s forests, the hidden agendas driving waste recycling and the fight for precious water resources.
- Finalists
- Melissa Fyfe
- For a series of penetrating investigative articles dealing with a range of critical marine and coastal issues.
- Stuart Higgins , Alicia Brown
- For 'Grow Your Own'.
- Peter Roberts
- For The 'Power of Partnerships'.
- Deborah Smith
- For outstanding overall journalistic performance, reflected in sustained and prolific reporting on a wide range of science issues throughout the year.
- Tom Morton
- For Mutating Mobiles, a fresh, lively and thoughtful look at the many ways in which mobile phones are changing our everyday lives.
- Promoting Understanding of Science
- Winner
- Kenneth Baldwin
- For his role in conceiving and championing the now annual 'Science meets Parliament' event.
- Finalists
- Philip Batterham
- For his role in initiating and organising the International Congress of Genetics 2003 (Melbourne).
- Phillip Higgins
- For the Flying Scientist program, providing a hands-on science learning experience for students in the School of the Air region of outback NSW, NT, Qld and SA who otherwise have almost no access to specialist teachers.