2023
Best student oral presentation
- Sarah Vollert, Queensland University of Technology
Unlocking ensemble ecosystem modelling for simulation of high-dimensional networks: From days to minutes - Tanvir Mahmud Saurav, University of New South Wales, Canberra
A computational framework for phenomenological modelling of ember storms at the wildland-urban interface
Commendation for student oral presentation
- Caroline Rosello, Australian National University
Identifying factors influencing water planning: Benefits of a capability approach? - Gabrielle Burns, The University of Melbourne
A practical approach to assessing climate change impacts on snow cover and streamflow in southeast Australia
Commendation for student poster
- Luca Trotter, The University of Melbourne
Variable storage capacity in hydrological models to enhance performance under contrasting climates
2021
Best presentation
Winners
- Danielle Udy, University of Tasmania
How does salty snowfall in Antarctica help us understand Australian hydroclimate risk? - Hamid Yahyaei, Macquarie University
The impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation on global food security: An implied volatility approach - Johan Visser, University of New South Wales Sydney
No ‘hook’ structures in extreme precipitation-temperature scaling
Commendations
- Philippa Higgins, University of New South Wales Sydney
Recent increase in Northern Australian streamflow unmatched over the past 600 years - Jacob Simpson, University of New South Wales Canberra
Agile, antifragile, AI-enabled command and control: The dynamics of survival in high-intensity conflicts - Shuang Liu, University of New South Wales Sydney
Utility of remote sensing for understanding water quality changes in small urban waterbodies - Pengcheng Zhao, The University of Melbourne
Extending a joint probability modelling approach for post-processing ensemble precipitation forecasts from numerical weather prediction models - Kate Coelli, The University of Sydney
A nationally scalable approach to simulating soil organic carbon in agricultural landscapes - Marcela Silva, Monash University
Modelling water fluxes across the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum using FETCH3 - Shirui Hao, The University of Melbourne
Remotely sensed crop biomass model over wheat cropping field for assimilating Sentinel-2 imagery into a crop yield prediction model
2019
Orals
Best oral presentation
- Nevenka Bulovic, The University of Queensland
Quantifying water volumes of ungauged lakes using optical satellite imagery and high-resolution LiDAR DEMs
Commendations
- Eliana Jorquera, The University of Newcastle
Assessment of the impact of cyclones on the annual sediment budget in a Pacific Island catchment using a hydro-sedimentological model - Kirrilie Rowe, University of South Australia
Orienting solar panels to minimise power shortfall - Abraham Gibson, The University of Newcastle
Centennial-scale variability of soil moisture in eastern Australia
Posters
Best poster
- Ankur Srivastava, The University of Newcastle
Aspect-controlled spatial and temporal soil moisture patterns across three different latitudes
Commendation
- Nikul Kumari, The University of Newcastle
Applying rainfall ensembles to explore hydrological uncertainty
2017
- Anna Cresswell, CSIRO
A functional-structural coral model - Jordan Pitt, The Australian National University
Importance of Dispersion for Shoaling Waves - Jonas Schwaab, Institute for Spatial and Landscape Planning, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
How to choose the right planning horizon? Using multiobjectiveoptimization to support urban planning - Hamish Stevens-Bullmore, Lincoln University, New Zealand
A local sensitivity analysis of Ca2+-calmodulin binding and its influenceover PP1 activity - Elizabeth Trevenen, University of Western Australia
A simulation model for exploring the effects of plant-soil feedbacks on the resilience of plant communities
2015
- Di He, CSIRO
Modelling the impact of climate variability and irrigation on winter canola yield and yield gap in Southwest China - Yanlin Shi, The Australian National University
A Discussion on the Innovation Distribution of Markov Regime-Switching GARCH Model - Rachael Quill, University of New South Wales, Canberra
Effects of post-fire vegetation regrowth on wind fields over complex terrain - Gaohong Yin, King Abdullah University, Saudi Arabia
A Multiple-point Geostatistics Method for filling gaps in Landsat ETM+ SLC-off images - Enayat Moallemi, University of Melbourne
Dynamic modelling of energy transitions using a coupled modelling-narrative approach - Chaitanya Kapiolani Oehmigara, The Australian National University
Reduced Basis Model Reduction for Statistical Inverse Problems with applications in Tsunami Modelling - Ali Abroudi, Lincoln University, New Zealand
System modelling of mammalian cell cycle regulation using multi-level hybrid petri nets - Jens Froese, University of Queensland
Moving window analysis links landscape-scale resource utilization to habitat suitability models of feral pigs in northern Australia
2013
- Lisa Schultz, University of South Australia
Modelling motor vehicle emissions and population exposure in South Australia - Alexandra Hogan, The Australian National University
Modelling the seasonality of respiratory syncytial virus in young children - Josh Chopin, University of South Australia
Selection of parameters in active contours for the phenotypic analysis of plants - Mitchell Welch, University of New England
A high performance, agent-based simulation of old world screwworm fly lifecycle and dispersal using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) platform - Alexandra Klados, Curtin University
Do more signals mean higher profits? - Ranjodh Singh, Curtin University
Testing intra-daily seasonality using Maximum Entropy Density - Cameron MacRae, RMIT University / CSIRO
Controlling micro-CHP generators as a virtual power plant - Evertje Lawley, The University of Adelaide
Using spatio-temporal vegetation imagery for arid lands monitoring - Joseph Guillaume, The Australian National University
An interactive modelling tool to support knowledge elicitation using extreme case models - Mun-Ju Shin, The Australian National University
Understanding the relationship between model parameters, objective functions and predictions for data-based modelling with conceptual rainfall-runoff models - Camila Alvarez-Garreton, University of Melbourne
Impact of observation error structure on satellite soil moisture assimilation into a rainfall-runoff model
2011
- Mika Peace, University of Adelaide
- Jessica Dunn, RMIT
- Jelle Van Loon, University Leuven, Belgium
- Palmar Thorsteinsson, University of Iceland
- David Savage, University of Western Australia
- Tahna Mahjabeen, Curtin University
- Nicholas Car, University of Melbourne
- Rachel Blakers, The Australian National University
2009
- Vikram Sunkara, The Australian National University, Australia
- Wendy Minato, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
- Lisa Lowe, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Fiona Paton, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Baihua Fu, The Australian National University, Australia
- Fiona Johnson, The University of New South Wales, Australia
- Xin Zhao, The University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- Ghialy Yap, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
- Joanna Szemis, The University of Adelaide, Australia
- Brittany Coff, The University of Adelaide, Australia
2007
Prizes
- Sander Janssen, Wageningen Uni, Netherlands
- Eve McDonald-Madden, Uni of Qld, Australia
- Jakin Ravalico, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
Commendations
- Nicholas Car, University of Melbourne & CSIRO Land & Water, Australia
- Nicklas Forsell, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences & French National Institute for Agricultural Research
- Ling Li, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
- Maki Matsuka, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
- Daniel Pagendam, University of Queensland, Australia
- Robert Pipunic, University of Melbourne, Australia
- Paraskevi Thomas, University of South Australia, Australia
Prior to 2007, Student prizes and commendations were awarded in each of three categories: Natural Systems, Socioeconomic Systems, and General Systems.
| Natural Systems | |
|---|---|
| Prizes | |
| 2005 | Nicholas Surawski (Griffith University) |
| 2003 | Lucy Marshall |
| 2001 | Tim Harrold |
| 1999 | Scott Woolbridge |
| 1997 | Margriet Nakken |
| Commendations | |
| 2005 | Alice O’Connor (U Melbourne), Jakin Ravalico (U Adelaide), Celina Smith (ANU) |
| 2003 | Greer Kingston, Jose Ruiz, Jenifer Ticehurst, Leo Lymburner, Benjamin Cairns |
| 2001 | Gavin Bowden |
| Socioeconomic Systems | |
| Prizes | |
| 2005 | Bernardo da Veiga (Uni Western Australia) |
| 2003 | Kim Radalj |
| 2001 | Felix Chan |
| 1999 | Peter Verhoeven |
| 1997 | Christine Lim |
| Commendations | |
| 2005 | Jared Greenville (Uni Sydney), Isabel Casas (UWA) |
| 2003 | Peter Goethals, Suhejla Hoti |
| 2001 | Suhejla Hoti |
| General Systems | |
| Prizes | |
| 2005 | An Tran Duy (Wageninen Uni) |
| 2003 | Kate Johnson |
| 2001 | Rebecca Letcher |
| 1999 | Peter Johnson |
| 1997 | Fayen d’Evie |
| Commendations | |
| 2005 | Asif Zaman (U Melbourne), Michael bode (Uni Qld) |
| 2003 | Norio Hirao |