The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science annually runs the CBCS small grant scheme for supporting activities to promote research collaboration, inclusion, mentorship, leadership and teamwork.
We would like to thank everyone who applied for this round of the scheme. A big congratulations to the applicants who were successful and commiserations to those who were not. We plan to run another small grant scheme in early 2022 and strongly encourage everyone to propose exciting ideas again.
The successful lead applicants and their activities for 2021 were:
Anazelia Tedesco Workshop: Social factors as a bridge between restoration planning and implementation
Caitie Kuempel Workshop: Coral reef and watershed management
Chris O'Bryan Workshop: Biodiversity conservation and disease risk
Chris Roelfsema Workshop: Satellite Earth observation for coastal and marine conservation
Clair Hume Workshop/Training: Communicating conservation research through non-fiction children's books with UQP
Claudia Benham Workshop: Ecological grief
Diana Fisher Workshop: Australia's goals and priorities for ex-situ conservtion of mammals
Karlina Indraswari Workshop: Infographic design
Laura Sonter Workshop: Compiling a list of conservation courses at UQ
Manuela Mendiolar Training: Statistical computing and programming in R
Mercedes McLean Workshop: Connecting culture and conservation
Robyn Boldy: Workshop/Seminar: Collaboration with Wik/Wik Waya Traditional Owners