Research Grants Awarded September & October 1999

GRANTING AGENCY	GRANT TITLE	SUPERVISOR	DURATION	AMOUNT
AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA	South West irrigation project	Dr H Hofstede	1999-00	$12,000
AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA	Lysimeter leach analysis	Dr Hofstede	1999-00	$14,000
AJ PARKER CENTRE	Undergraduate Scholarship	B Gibbs/ Dr R Cord-Ruwisch	1999-00	$18,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (SPECIAL RESEARCH INITIATIVES PROGRAM)	Indonesia after the Crisis: Policy Agendas for the United States, Australia and Europe.	Prof R Robison	1999-00	$31,089
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Varieties of nationalism in modern Japan 1853-2002	Dr S Wilson	2000-02	$132,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Control of acid tolerance in root nodule bacteria	Prof Dilworth	2000-02	$190,046
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Transition to two layer reservoir withdrawal in three dimensions	Dr G Hocking, Dr D Farrow	2000-02	$111,775
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Global stability & performance analysis of nonlinear systems using multiple model based controllers	Dr P Bahri, Dr M Cooney, Prof Lee	2000-02	$176,054
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Proof theory for extensions of temporal logic	Dr M Reynolds	2000-02	$174,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – LARGE GRANT	Boron requirements for pollen function in higher plants	Dr R Bell, A/Prof B Dell	2000-02	$95,100
CENTRE FOR LAND REHABILITATION (UWA) ALCOA/ WORSLEY	Rehabilitating gold residues at the Boddington and Hedges gold mines	Dr R Bell	1999-00	$166,766
CRC FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM	Nature tourism in the temperate eucalypt forests of WA	Dr D Newsome	1999-02	$30,200
CRC FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM	Dolphin interaction – tourism management and best practice.	D Lee	1999-00	$28,000
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND TRADE (DOCAT)	ACRE Lab	Dr T Pryor	1999-01	$570,000
ENVIRONMENT AUSTRALIA	Environment water requirements to maintain wetlands of national and international importance	Dr J Davis	2000	$49,751
ENVIRONMENT AUSTRALIA	Revision of the Acrohaetiales and Bonnemaisoniales (Rhodophyta) in Australia	Dr J Huisman	2000	$40,000
GINGIN SHIRE	Assessment of visitor usage of Lancelin Island walkway	Dr J MacBeth / D Lee	1999-00	$300
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH (NCVER)	The distribution of the costs of new apprenticeships	Prof K Norris	1999-00	$66,572
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	A comparison of ectomycorrhizal biodiversity in rehabilitated mines and adjacent indigenous forest sites	Dr G Hardy, Dr P O’Brien	2000-02	$200,000
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Investigation of diseases affecting Greater Bilbies (Macrotis lagotis) – A model for health management for Australian endangered species recovery programmes	Prof R Swan	2000-02	$151,000
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Will Phytophthora cinnamomi become resistant to the fungicide phosphite?	Dr G Hardy, Dr P O’Brien	2000-02	$300,000
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Effect of host nutrition on development of the black truffle in Western Australia	A/Prof B Dell	2000-02	$63,240
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Propagation of blue flowered conospermum through somatic embryogenesis	A/Prof J A McComb	2000-02	$63,240
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Mycosphaerella leaf blights and other pathogens in Eucalyptus Globulus plantations and interactions with tree nutrient status	A/Prof B Dell, Dr G Hardy	2000-02	$115,000
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDUSTRY – RESEARCH & TRAINING SCHEME (SPIRT)	Impact of eCommerce on skill requirements in the Western Australian labour markets	A/Prof P Lewis, Dr S Poon	2000	$39,000
US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY	Southern hemisphere aerosol program	Dr B Scott	1999-2000	$2,500 (US)

Research Grants Awarded November 1999

GRANTING AGENCY	GRANT TITLE	SUPERVISOR	DURATION	AMOUNT
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT BOARD	Development of Solarflow Unit for Livestock Watering purposes	A/Prof G Ho, Dr K Mathew	2000	$16,155
ASSOCIATION OF AVIAN VETERINARIANS	Genetic variation in the psittacine circovirus capsid protein	Dr S Raidall	2000	$11,500 US
ATTORNEY GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT	Enhancing the quality of student supervision in clinical legal education – A professional development package for clinical legal educators	A Zariski/ Dr I Styles/ M Hovane	1999-00	$10,000
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (AINSE)	SIMS analysis of Preg-robbing ores	A/Prof S Thurgate	2000	$9,646
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	A study of methods to reverse photodegradation in hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells in the field	Dr C Lund, Prof P Jennings	2000	$15,610
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Constructing hierarchical fuzzy systems efficiently	Prof T Gedeon	2000	$18,060
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	A novel approach for scheduling of batch and mixed batch continuous processing plants	Dr P Bahri, Prof P Lee	2000	$17,970
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	The diastereoselective synthesis of benzisochromanequinones as models for compounds of potential medicinal importance	Prof R Giles	2000	$17,360
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Molecular genetics of feral cats and their parasite communites: Characterisation of their impact on native fauna	Prof A Thompson	2000	$10,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	An investigation of the genetic control of replication and pathogenicity of bovine lentiviruses	Prof G Wilcox	2000	$29,888
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Interactions between phosphate and litterfall residue during seasonal rainfall	Dr S Qiu, Emer.Prof A McComb	2000	$20,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Regulation of voluntary food intake in Weanling pigs by Glucagon-like peptide-1	Dr J Pluske	2000	$27,512
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Preparation of a recombinant outer envelope protein of Serpulina pilosicoli and its use to investigate immune reactivity and serological status of infected animals	A/Prof D Hampson	2000	$22,500
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Role of Boron in female fertility in Maize	Dr R Bell, A/Prof B Dell	2000	$29,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Cognitive development and individual differences in reasoning ability – the role of speed and inhibition	Dr H Davis	2000	$5,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	The role of science in environmental imapact assessment	Dr A Morrison-Saunders, Dr J Bailey	2000	$5,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Sexuality and the Septuagint	A/Prof W Loader	2000	$7,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	An investigation of indigenous community support processes in response to a native title decision	Dr K Trees, Dr A Turk	2000	$9,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Rural housing construction in China: An analysis of farmers’ rationale, government policy responses and property rights formation	Dr S Sargeson	2000	$10,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Industry participation in complex projects: An international comparative study	Dr J Phillimore	2000	$8,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Childhood and the Media: A mainland Chinese perspective in Western Australia 2000	Dr S Donald, Dr A Witcomb	2000	$9,500
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	State housing and urban form in Perth	Prof P Newman	2000	$8,000
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Processing of alternative meanings of ambiguous words in each cerebral hemisphere	Dr M Collins	2000	$9,500
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Plotting Bonaparte’s death	Prof M Durey	2000	$11,500
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	Engendering the emotions: psychological constructions of gender differences in emotionality	Dr A Petersen	2000	$10,400
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL – SMALL GRANT	The links between offending behaviour and criminal peers	Prof M Innes	2000	$10,000
CENTRE FOR STRATEGIC ECONOMIC STUDIES (VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)	The drivers and shapers of Economic Development in WA in the 21st century (Consultancy).	Dr J Phillimore/ Dr Marinova	1999-00	$10,000
CITY OF STIRLING	Waste Audit 1999	Dr Hofstede	1999-00	$26,160
CROWN SOLICITOR’S OFFICE	Macey v Main Roads (consultancy)	A/Prof L Hartley	1999-00	$4,200
DEPARTMENT OF CONTRACT AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES	Consultancy services to develop a report on the export of WA education and training constraints and opportunites.	Dr P Lewis	1999-00	$59,670
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND TRADE	WA Government Strategic Research Fellowship	Dr John Huisman	2000-01	$100,000
GORDON REID FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION (LOTTERIES COMMISSION)	The importance of different habitat types in the nearshore marine waters and esturaries of south western Australia to commercial and recreational fish species	Prof I Potter	1999-00	$28,030
HEALTH DEPARTMENT OF WA	Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (MHRIF) – Year 2000	A/Prof G HO	2000	$30,349
IAN POTTER FOUNDATION	Conservation implications of foraging variation in bottlenose dolphins in Cockburn Sound, WA	Dr M Calver	2000	$10,000
NATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (NHMRC)	Cell-mediated immune responses in cytomegalovirus-induced myocarditis	Dr C Lawson	2000-02	$230,690
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS PTY LTD	Consultancy for the Delivery of an Energy efficiency education Program in Seleted Aboriginal communities in WA	Dr M Anda/Dr K Mathew	1999-00	$144,300