About EarthByte
The EarthByte research
group consists of highly awarded and acclaimed
researchers who have won a variety of awards.
2011
Kayla Maloney
University of Sydney
Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding
Academic Achievement
Sabin Zahirovic
University of Sydney,
Faculty of Science Award for Citizenship
Aedon Talsma
University of
Sydney, Faculty of Science Award for Citizenship
Logan Yeo
PESA Tertiary Study Grant
for his PhD project on Integrating deep earth
and surface processes for frontier basin
exploration
Allison Thomas
PESA Tertiary Study Grant for her Honours thesis
on “Oil Migration in the Late Archaean
Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa”
Grace Shephard
PESA Tertiary Study Grant for her PhD project on
Linking deep Earth structure and surface
topography through geodynamic models
2010
Ben Dickinson
Earth Resources Foundation
2nd Year Scholarship
Ana Gibbons
George Harris Scholarship
Balraj Hansra
Prospectors Supplies Pty Ltd
- Suunto Prize
Kara Matthews
LA Richardson Memorial
Prize
Prof. Dietmar
M¸ller
Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
Mercator Professor Fellowship at the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit‰t
M¸nchen, Germany)
Grace Shephard
LA Richardson Memorial Prize
Aedon Talsma
Petroleum Exploration Society
of Australia Study Grant
Leo A. Cotton Prize in Exploration Geophysics
Aaron Tyler
The Quodling Testimonial
Prize for Crystallography and Petrology
Sabin Zahirovic
Geological Society of
Australia NSW Scholarship
2009
Nicholas Herold
George Harris Scholarship
Kara Matthews
Third Year Fugro Ground and
Airborne Geophysics Prize
Prof. Dietmar
M¸ller
Australian Laureate Fellow
Judith Tong
University of Sydney
Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding
Achievement 2009
Sabin Zahirovic
The Quodling Testimonial
Prize for Crystallography and Petrology
2008
Hannah Lane
Petroleum Exploration
Society of Australia Study Grant
Ana Gibbons
Petroleum Exploration Society
of Australia Study Grant
Rhiannon McKeon
L. A. Richardson Memorial
Prize in Exploration Geophysics
Deas-Thomson Scholarship in Geology
Prof. Dietmar
M¸ller
Top reviewer in 2008 for
exceptional contribution to the quality of
Tectonophysicsî by Elsevier, Amsterdam
(The Netherlands), Publisher of Tectonophysics
Gemma Roberts
Petroleum Exploration Society
of Australia Study Grant
Dr. Maria Seton
Awarded an Australian
Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD) from the Australian
Research Council
Grace Shepherd
Leo A. Cotton Prize in
Exploration Geophysics
Deas-Thomson Scholarship in Geology
Vashti Singh
Petroleum Exploration Society
of Australia Study Grant
2007
Lachlan O'Brian
Winner of Australian
International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Student
Competition
Joanne Whittaker
University of Sydney
Postgraduate Research Prize for Outstanding
Achievement
Hannah
Lane
Deas-Thomson
Scholarship in Mineralogy
Kara Matthews
Leo A. Cotton Prize in
Exploration Geophysics
Gemma Roberts
Prospectors Supplies Pty
Ltd - Suunto Prize
Grace Shephard
Slade Prize for Geology 2
Practicals
Coffey Geosciences Scholarship
Vashti Singh
Sheila Mitchell Swain
Memorial Prize
Ken Richards Memorial Scholarship
Sabin Zahirovic
WH Maze Prize for
Intermediate Geography
Edgeworth David Prize in Palaeontology
2006
Dr. Adriana Dutkiewicz
Dorothy Hill Award from the
Australian Academy of Science
CSIRO Medal for Scientific Achievement (group
award)
Dr. Christian Heine
David I Groves Award for
the best paper published by a junior author in the
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (Joint Award)
Nicholas
Herold
Elliston Medal
Kara Matthews
Olga Marion Browne Prize for
Field Work
Prof. Dietmar
M¸ller
Elected Fellow, American
Geophysical Union
David I Groves Award for the best paper published by
a junior author in the Australian Journal of Earth
Sciences (Joint Award)
2005
Vashti Singh
C.E. Marshall
Scholarship
Kara Matthews
Coffey Geosciences
Scholarship
Dr.Joanne
Whittaker
George Harris
Postgraduate Award
