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The Faculty would like to congratulate our most recent industry and research grant recipients.

Dr Susan Gourvenec, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems: '2nd International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics' - $48,800 (2009-10).  DIISR ISL Competitive Grants

Dr Eric May, School of Mechanical Engineering: 'Supercritical CO2-CH4 Displacement in Tight Gas Reservoirs' - $275,000 (2009).  Shell Development Australia Pty Ltd

Dr Adam Wittek, School of Mechanical Engineering: ' Mesh-Free Method for Soft Tissue Damage Modelling for Application in Surgery Simulation' - $29,589 (2009).  UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Marco Ghisalberti, School of Environmental Systems Engineering: 'Vertical Mixing in Wave Flows Over Seagrass Beds' - $17,681 (2009).  UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Luigi Barone, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering: 'Distributed Swarm Intelligence Using Prediction Markets for Belief Propagation' - $15,000 (2009). UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Wei Liu, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering: 'Extracting Social Networks from Collaborative E-Portals' - $28,200 (2009).  UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Elke Reichwaldt, School of Environmental Systems Engineering: 'Mussels as Bioindicators for Spatial and Temporal Variability of Human Impact on the Swan River System Western Australia' - $19,000 (2009).  UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Mr Ferdous Sohel, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering: 'Joint 2D/3D Shape-Based Representation of Multimodal Hand Biometrics for Robust Authentication and Identification for Online Banking' - $20,000 (2009). UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Nicole Jones, School of Environmental Systems Engineering: 'The Importance of Topographically Controlled Fronts to the Humpback Whales of Camden Sound, Kimberley, Western Australia' - $28,626 (2009). UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Thomasz Popiel, School of Mathematics and Statistics: 'Nonlinear Approximation Theory and Engineering Applications' - $16,789 (2009). UWA Research Development Award Scheme

Dr Mariusz Martyniuk, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering: 'Optical Addressing of Nano-Cantilever Based Sensors' - $29,932 (2009).  UWA Research Development Award Scheme