RST Clive Lord Memorial Medal Discontinued
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
The RST Council recently approved the two winners of the 2025 Doctoral (PhD) Award. This award is intended to recognise recent PhD graduates who have made significant advances during their doctoral research. The value of the award is $1,000 (AUD).
The winners of the 2025 RST Doctoral (PhD) Award were Dr Laura Dalman and Dr Katie Marx.
Dr Dalman’s PhD project was undertaken at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. Her thesis was titled “Physical controls of Southern Ocean ice-associated primary production”. The thesis investigated the distribution and community structure of sea-ice algae, providing an updated estimate of Antarctic ice algal net community production, and examined the physical drivers of autumn under-ice phytoplankton, using in-situ measurements, satellite observations, and animal-borne sensors.
Dr Dalman is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium investigating, via controlled ice-growth experiments, how microbial communities colonise sea ice and how their physiological adaptations influence brine rejection and carbon fluxes.
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Laura.Dalman/about
Dr Marx’s PhD project was undertaken at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tasmania. Her thesis was titled “Understanding attachment to remote places: Insights from a study of Hobart citizens’ relationships with Antarctica”. Her doctoral research focused on the concept of place attachment in Hobart, an Antarctic gateway city. From this, she has built an interest in exploring how we can support members of the public to form a meaningful relationship with remote places (such as Antarctica) that they themselves may never visit.
Dr Marx is now a postdoctoral researcher within the University of Tasmania’s Antarctic Tourism Research Program. She is the current co-lead of the Public Engagement with Antarctic Research Action Group within the international Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. She has tutored in a range of subjects, including environmental communication and marine and Antarctic governance, and she tends to spend her summers working as a historian and guide with tour operators on the Antarctic peninsula.
The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
