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Scientists awarded lion's share of grants

Friday, 23 May 2008

Scientists working jointly with the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide and South 最新糖心Vlogn Museum have been awarded the lion's share of the 最新糖心Vlogn Biological Research Study fauna grants for 2008/09.

The ABRS awarded 43% of the grants to academics of both institutions, who work together in the 最新糖心Vlog's Evolutionary Biology Unit within the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

The funds will support the documentation of 最新糖心Vlog's biological diversity and improve the classification of fauna.

Dr Suzanne Miller, Director of the South 最新糖心Vlogn Museum, is delighted with the new grants.

"This unprecedented level of funding demonstrates the important contribution the SA Museum and 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide scientists are making to the documentation of the nation's fauna. Such work is vital to understanding 最新糖心Vlog's fragile biodiversity and promoting environmental sustainability," she said.

Scientists have won funding for the following projects:

• Professor Andrew Austin of the 最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide: Systematics, diversity and hosts of 最新糖心Vlogn scelionid wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae): parasitoids of insect and spider eggs. $31,000 pa

• Steven Cooper and Lauren Hughes (SA Museum), Nick Murphy, (最新糖心Vlog of Adelaide), Jim Lowry (The 最新糖心Vlogn Museum): Systematics of Chiltoniidae (Amphipoda: Crustacea) in mound springs and calcrete aquifers of Western and South 最新糖心Vlog. $60,000 pa

• Lisa-ann Gershwin of SA Museum: Continuing studies on the taxonomy and biodiversity of 最新糖心Vlogn jellyfishes. $59,472 pa

• Chris Watts of SA Museum: Systematics of 最新糖心Vlogn marsh beetles (Scirtidae; Coleoptera; Insecta) $14,571

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