Awards

Individuals

Andrea Byrom - Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences
David Galloway – elected Foreign Member of The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences - Gothenburg, Sweden, in recognition of his lichenology contributions.
Ronny Groenteman – IOBC-Asia-Pacific Regional Section Young Scientist Award to attend the 3rd Combined Australian and New Zealand Entomological Societies Conference
Robert Holdaway – Travel grant to participate in workshop held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and hosted by the ARC Center of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
Fraser Morgan – TransAntarctic Association Award to help with travel to Scientific Community for Antarctic Research's Open Science Conference in July 2012
Marie-Claude Lariviere – A new species of flat bug from New Caledonia was named after her by a world expert in recognition of her contributions to the taxonomy of Hemiptera
Diana Prada – Queen Elizabeth II technicians' study award to spend time working at the Wildlife Forensics Unit of Alberta in Edmonton (Canada)
Dan Tompkins – Marsden funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research on 'Superspreading and Supershedding - Integrating contrasting hypotheses for infectious disease transmission, emergence and persistence'
Trevor Webb – Norman Taylor Memorial Lecture awarded by NZ Soil Science Society for 2011
Janet Wilmshurst – Marsden funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand for research on solving the enigma of prehistoric Moriori settlement on Rekohu (Chatham Islands)

Groups

Landcare Research’s exhibition garden “Transitions”, designed by Colin Meurk, won a Gold Award and the Supreme Award for Horticultural Excellence at the 2012 Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch. “Transitions” celebrated greening-thecity opportunities for post-quake Christchurch
The Central Otago Ecological Trust, chaired by Grant Norbury, won the Supreme Award at the Central Otago District Community Awards
The carboNZero team won a Green Ribbon award in the greenhouse gas reduction category of MfE’s annual environmental awards