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UNIVERSITY OF HULL
Postdoctoral Research Associate
(Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Department of Biological Sciences
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NEW AWARD LAUNCHED
THE MARSH AWARD FOR EARLY CAREER ENTOMOLOGIST
This new award has now been launched in conjunction with the Marsh Christian Trust, please see the Awards page for details.
WESTWOOD AWARD
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Marsh Award for Insect Conservation 2011
The 2011 winner is Dr Steve Cham in recognition of his outstanding and exemplary contribution to Insect Conservation
Steve Cham has had a lifetime fascination for Natural History with his interest in Entomology nurtured while working at Rothamsted Experimental Station during the early part of his career. Having moved on he continued his interest and personal research as a volunteer. He has been a member of the British Dragonfly Society (BDS) since its formation in 1983 and has published a number of papers in its journal.
Steve became national co-ordinator for the Dragonfly Recording Network (DRN) after the scheme was transferred from the BRC. He was quick to see the benefits to conservation of providing Odonata data to the NBN and the DRN dataset was used as a pilot during the development of the gateway. Steve has also been an active member of the Dragonfly Conservation Group of the BDS for over a decade and has been involved in a number of conservation initiatives that benefit these insects.
Steve is author of several books on Dragonflies including the Dragonflies of Bedfordshire and a two volume field guide to the larvae and exuviae of British Dragonflies. He is also co-author of Dragonflies of Hampshire. Steve lectures on his favourite subject and is the leader on various courses. His photographs have been used widely. Steve is currently involved on the working party for the next National atlas of British Dragonflies.
THE 2011 JOURNAL AWARDS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
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THE 2010 STUDENT AWARD WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
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THE 2010 STUDENT AWARD WINNERS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
WIGGLESWORTH AWARD - 2012
The recipient of the 2012 Wigglesworth Award and medal has been announced as Professor Stephen Simpson, University of Sydney. Professor Simpson will receive his award at the International Congress of Entomology, Daegu, South Korea in 2012.
Mini Biography
Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology under the supervision of Reg Chapman and Liz Bernays. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, first in Experimental Psychology working on the neurobiology of feeding in monkeys, then in the Department of Zoology and the University Museum of Natural History, where he became Professor of the Hope Entomological Collections. Steve was enticed back to Australia in 2005, as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow. He is currently an ARC Laureate Fellow in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Sydney. Together with colleague David Raubenheimer, Steve developed a framework for nutritional biology, which was devised and tested using insects but has been applied to a wide range of organisms, from slime moulds to humans, and problems spanning aquaculture and conservation biology to the dietary causes of human obesity. In the late 1980s a major plague of the desert locust in Africa provided the incentive to begin an investigation into the biology of locust swarming, which has led to an understanding of swarming that links chemical events in the brains of individual insects to collective movement and landscape-scale mass migration. Steve has been Visiting Professor at Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Arizona, and Guest Professor at the University of Basel. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, in 2008 he was awarded the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research, and in 2009 he was named NSW Scientist of the Year.
RES FELLOW AWARDED OBE FOR TSETSE FLY RESEARCH
Glyn Vale, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, has been awarded an OBE in the 2008 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Glyn’s award is in recognition of his services to controlling and eradicating tsetse flies in Africa. He is a leading researcher on tsetse behaviour and the use of bait technologies for controlling the tsetse.
Glyn has devoted the last four decades of his professional work to this research, initially focusing on the improvement of tsetse trapping methods for assessing the effectiveness of baiting techniques for tsetse.
Glyn and his colleagues went on to develop better ways of using pesticides against the tsetse fly, while reducing cost and causing little damage to the environment. Research undertaken by the team showed that most tsetses feed on the legs and belly of cattle. By restricting application of insecticide to these parts, the use of insecticide can be reduced by more than 80 per cent.
His work in this area has been recognised previously; he was a finalist in the World Technology Awards for the Environment in 2003, and he and his team were also short listed for the Times Higher Education Supplement Research Project of the Year in 2007.
RES President Professor Lin Field said: “Congratulations to Glyn on his OBE honour from the Members and Fellows of the RES. His scientific research has already had a considerable effect in Africa and we are delighted that his expertise is being recognisedâ€.
