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The D.L. Serventy Medal may be awarded annually for outstanding published work on birds in the Australasian region. It has been awarded for the last 15 years and is the highest award offered to professional ornithologists by Birds Australia.
2008 Serventy Medallists
Stephen Garnett is Director of the School for Environmental Research, Institute for Advanced Studies, at Charles Darwin University and Gabriel Crowley is a Project Officer with the Tropical Savannas Management CRC. Partners in life and work, Stephen and Gay have made a significant, pivotal and unique contribution to the knowledge and conservation of Australian birds. This contribution has been through hands-on intensive research, through the compilation of systematic overviews of the conservation status of Australian birds, and through the development and maintenance of networks of ornithologists and others, nationally and internationally, with interest in the management of Australia's threatened birds.
Both Gay and Stephen have a long-standing association with Birds Australia, Stephen on several committees and Gay as a researcher. Together and separately they have made a major contribution to our knowledge of Australian birds, and an unrivalled contribution to their conservation. Their significant contributions to the publication of pure, applied and popular ornithology and conservation, make them most worthy recipients of the D. L. Serventy Medal.
Nominations
Nominations for the medal for 2009 should be sent to
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, Department of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351. Please send a one page citation, a copy of a recent curriculum vitae listing all publications and the names of two referees.
Dominic Louis Serventy (1904-1988)
Dom Serventy was born in Kalgoorlie in 1904, and died in Perth in 1988. He was educated at the Universities of Western Australia (BSc) and Cambridge (PhD 1933). Serventy was a lecturer in zoology at the University of Western Australia from 1934 to 1937, a research officer at the CSIRO Fisheries Division from 1937 to 1951 and officer-in-charge, at CSIRO Wildlife Survey Division, Perth, from 1951 to 1969. He was interested in all aspects of ornithology, from biogeography and speciation to breeding seasons and general biology, and had a long-term influence on conservation. He was President of the RAOU from 1947 to 1949, and a fellow from 1952. He won the Australian Natural History Medallion in 1956, was a member of the Western Australian Wildlife Authority 1943-74, editor of Western Australian Naturalist 1947-80, member of the Permanent Executive Committee of the International Ornithological Congress 1966-78, and fellow of the Western Australian Museum from 1974. With his brother Vincent and sister Lucy, he revived the Western Australian Naturalists' Club after World War Two. He produced extensive sets of bird distribution maps and wrote The Handbook of Australian Seabirds (1971) with Vincent Serventy and John Warham and Birds of Western Australia (five editions between 1948 and 1976) with H.M. Whittell.
(Text adapted from The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001 (2001), by Libby Robin.)
The Serventy Medal Committee
The Serventy Medal Committee is a subcommittee of the Research and Conservation Committee (RACC), which assesses nominations for the award and recommends medal winners for consideration by RACC. Currently, the chair of the committee is
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The award follows a set of Guidelines, and the committee also has Terms of Reference. |
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D.L. Serventy
Serventy Medallists
2008 Prof Stephen Garnett & Dr Gabriel Crowley
2007 Dr Michael Clarke
2006 Dr Denis Saunders
2005 Lesley & Michael Brooker
2004 Professor Andrew Cockburn
2003 Dr Richard Holdaway
2003 Trevor Worthy
2001 Dr John Woinarski
1999 Professor Jiro Kikkawa
1998 Dr Richard Zann
1997 Dr Penny Olsen
1996 Drs Cliff & Dawn Frith
1995 Professor Allen Keast
1994 Dr Harry Recher
1993 Dr Hugh Ford
1992 Dr John Warham
1991 Dr Ian Rowley
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