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Winners of the inaugural Mel J Kelly Bursary announced
winners of the Mel Kelly Bursary, announced on Thursday 6 March. Isobel Thomas from Hobart was awarded the $5000 Mel Kelly Bursary, which will fund an aerial survey of giant kelp and explore the impacts of marine heatwaves in Tasmanian waters.
There were two runners up - Jessica Willemse was awarded $1,500 for her work on blue-winged parrot detection and monitoring threatened species, and Annabelle Erskine, $500 for her project titled Red Handfish Finding via Women Diving.
Developing sugar/Krefft’s glider control methods to support swift parrot nest success in Tasmania.
This project has been underway in Kelcey Tier, northwest Tasmania since April 2021, funded by a small grant from the Communities Environmental Grant in 2020
Assessing the efficacy of passive acoustic monitoring for the swift parrot
There is an urgent need to better understand spatial and temporal variation in swift parrot nesting success/failure