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Ivan Newnham Thesis Prize
(Victoria - $1000 awarded annually)
This prize is
awarded for the best final-year Honours thesis completed in Victoria in geology,
mining engineering or extractive metallurgy. Closing date for nominations is 30
June each year.
Ivan Newham AO MBE spent much of his professional career
with the CSIRO within the Divisions of Industrial Chemistry and Mineral
Chemistry and the Institute of Energy and Earth Resources. He was an early
proponent of making the research projects undertaken relevant to the needs of
the industry sector being served. He was a foundation Fellow of the
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Currently in hiatus.
Charles Marshall Thesis Prize
(NSW - $1000 awarded annually)
This prize is awarded
for the best final-year Honours thesis completed in NSW in geology, mining
engineering or extractive metallurgy. Closing date for nominations is 30 June
each year.
Charles Marshall AO had an outstanding career undertaking
pioneering exploration and development in Papa New Guinea, employment in the
Australian coal mining industry and leadership as a mining engineering
consultant. He was 1969 President of The AusIMM and first Chairman of the
Mineral Industry Consultants Association.
Currently in hiatus.
Ian Morley Thesis Prize
(Qld - two prizes of $750 each or three prizes of $500
each)
This prize is awarded for the best final-year Honours
thesis completed in Queensland in geology, mining engineering or extractive
metallurgy. Closing date for nominations is 30 June each year.
Ian Morley ISO after various appointments within the mining
industries of Western Australia and Papua New Guinea joined the Queensland
Department of Mines and rose to hold the position of State Mining Engineer
(1940-1969). He was a Councillor for The AusIMM for many years and author
of Black Sands, a history of beach sand mining on the east coast of
Australia.
The 2010 Ian Morley Prize was presented at the Julius
Kruttschnitt Memorial Lecture in Queensland to Luke
Pickering from James Cook University, and Matt Pyle from the
University of Queensland. For a full report on the winners please see
here.
Santos Prize
(SA - $500 awarded annually)
For the best thesis in the Honours program at the
Australian School of Petroleum.
Congratulations to the winner of the Santos Prize for the
best geoscience Honours thesis at the Australian School of Petroleum for 2009,
Steven Kwitco. His thesis was entitled: “Geological appraisal of the
Walloway Basin, South Australia: Implications for the potential for underground
coal gasification” and was sponsored by Linc Energy.
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