Research grants awarded for the 2019–2020 round
Algae
Recipient: Griffith University, QLD
Principal Investigator: G. Diaz-Pulido
Project Title: Australian reef building coralline red algae
Amount: $99 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Bryophytes
Recipient: The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (Sydney), NSW
Principal Investigator: M. Renner
Project Title: An integrative systematic revision of Australian Aneuraceae (Jungermanniopsida)
Amount: $11 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Vascular Flora
Recipient: The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust (Sydney), NSW
Principal Investigator: T. Wilson
Project Title: A new key for Australia’s Bugle Subfamily (Ajugoideae: Lamiaceae): a phylogenetically informed taxonomy assisted by next generation sequencing methods
Amount: $99 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Terrestrial and Freshwater Fauna
Recipient: The University of Adelaide, SA
Principal Investigator: E. Fagan-Jeffries
Project Title: Systematics of Australian microgastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A key group of caterpillar parasitoids
Amount: $99 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Recipient: The Trustee for the Australian Museum Trust, NSW
Principal Investigator: F. Köhler
Project Title: Evolutionary systematics and conservation biology of the land snails of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island
Amount: $99 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Marine Fauna
Recipient: The University of Queensland, QLD
Principal Investigator: S. Cutmore
Project Title: Cold blood killers: Taxonomy and life-cycles of blood flukes of Australian poikilotherms
Amount: $99 000 (includes GST) per year
Term: three years
Approval date: 12 March 2019
Capacity-building grants awarded for the 2019–2020 round
Non-salaried researcher grants
Vascular Flora
Recipient: Unattached, ACT
Principal Investigator: A. Orchard
Project Title: Publication of a catalogue of plant specimens collected by Allan Cunningham, October 1816–September 1822
Amount: $5500 (includes GST)
Term: one year
Approval date: 12 March 2019