Twelve early career researchers in ECM were successful in the 2009 round for UWA Research Development Awards funding for 2010. Congratulations to the winners and also to those that applied, but were unsuccessful. Please consider the feedback you receive carefully and continue to refine your grant writing skills, seek peer review and resubmit to this and other schemes.

This scheme is a great opportunity to:
a) develop grant writing skills;
b) secure funding for pilot projects to support future external applications;
c) build up track record in funding success and;
d) establish a relationship or collaboration with a mentor.

The winners are:

• Assistant Professor Britta Bienen, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
  A Load Capacity Model for the Foundations of Mobile Offshore Platforms on Clay Relevant to the Offshore Industry $29,355
• Dr Vera Biermann, School of Environmental Systems Engineering
  Impact of Contemporary Geochemical Processes in the Vadose Zone and in the Hyporheic Zone on Acidification in the Dalyup Catchment $17,818
• Dr Noel Boylan, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
  Penetrometer Based Design for Offshore Jack-Up Rig Foundations, $21,000
• Assistant Professor Daniela Ciancio, School of Civil and Resource Engineering Characterisation of Stabilised Rammed Earth: Influence of Soil Grade, Cement Content and Water Content in the Material Strength and Durability, $13,999 and $14,000 teaching relief
• Assistant Professor Edward Cripps, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Understanding the Dynamics of Learning Behaviour in the Presence of Spiraling Effects: A Bayesian Approach using Mixtures-of-Random-Effects, $10,500
• Assistant Professor James Doherty, School of Civil and Resource Engineering
  Fabrication of Centrifuge Scale Pressuremeter $15,000
• Dr Shazzad Hossain, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems
  Innovative Mechanism-Based Design Approach and Mitigative Perforation Drilling for Safe Installation of Jack-Up Spudcan Foundations in Complex Multi-Layered Soils $29,949
• Associate Professor David Huang, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
  Building a Digital Signal Processing Platform for High-Speed Underwater Acoustic Communications $23,916 and $7,000 teaching relief
• Dr Ajmal Saeed Mian, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
  Automatic Construction of 3D Deformable Fish Models for Biomass Measurement and Identification $28,087.20
• Dr Nicole Patten, School of Environmental Systems Engineering
  Control of ocean productivity by marine viruses $24,400
• Assistant Professor Thomas Stemler, School of Mathematics and Statistics
  Toward Reliable Statistics from Climate Models $10,000 and $ 14,000 teaching relief
• Dr Jian Ping Wu, School of Mechanical Engineering
  The Role of the Surface of Articular Cartilage in Maintaining Cartilage Matrix Integrity and Healthy Joints $13,500

Media references

Debbie Thackray /  debbie.thackray@uwa.edu.au / 6488 4765
Magdalena Matuszczyk / magdalena.matuszczyk@uwa.edu.au / 6488 4277