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OCS Research Awards
The Oceania Chondrichthyan Society proudly awards an annual research grant to support and foster innovative research within the student community.
This grant is designed to provide students with the resources and opportunities needed to advance their academic pursuits, enhance their research skills, and contribute to their chosen field.
Grant Guidelines
Each year, Passions of Paradise and OCS pair up to provide $3,000 AUD
towards a student research project in the Oceania region.
Eligibility criteria and conditions apply.
You can download detailed information and instructions below:
If eligible, please email your proposals to the OCS Secretary at: executive4ocs@gmail.com
Proposals of no more than four pages are invited from eligible students.
Note that applications received after 5:00PM AEST or that do not contain
all the required information will not be considered.
The Student Research Grant
round is currently closed.
Past Research Award Recipients
2025
Madison Baker
Developing a method of hormone analysis from the vertebrae of sharks using mass spectrometry approaches
2022
Rebecca Bateman
2021
Bailee Woolley
Life-history and reproductive behaviour of the Vulnerable Melbourne Skate to inform fisheries management and conservation
2020
Madie Cooper
Genome skimming of the critically endangered largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) using portable nanopore sequencing technology
2018
Shiori Kanno
Habitat use, movement patterns and trophic ecology of elasmobranchs within mangroves
2017
Ian Bouyocous
Reef shark performance in the 21st century
2016
Lauren Meyer
Trophic ecology of white sharks towards identifying key foraging habitats using novel biochemistry techniques
2015
Lauren Davey
2014
Jonathan Smart
Age, growth and demography of grey reef sharks and silvertip sharks in Papua New Guinea
2013
Chris Mull
Evolutionary transitions among modes of maternal investment in elasmobranchs
2012
Kathryn Buckley
Public aquariums and the conservation of the Freshwater Sawfish, Pristis microdon; impacts and benefits of keeping a threatened species
2011
Cassie Rigby
Life history of deepwater sharks in the Great Barrier Reef: non-lethal ageing
2010
Fernanda de Faria
Recreational fishing of sharks in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: Species composition and catch and release stress
2009
Kathryn Lee
Tracking the movements of Wobbegong Sharks
