Barry Jonassen Award

Contact person

Stacy Bierwagen
Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD
Mail: s.bierwagen@aims.gov.au

or

Jason Thiem
Department of Primary Industries, Narrandera, NSW
Tel: 02 6958 8219
Mail: jason.thiem@dpi.nsw.gov.au

This award was established in 1999 and is named in memory of Barry Jonassen, a keen freshwater angler, biologist and passionate supporter of ASFB. Jonassen served as a long-term member of the NSW Council of Freshwater Anglers (formerly NSW Institute of Freshwater Anglers), from the late 1970s to early 1990s. Jonassen played a prominent role in advocating and advising on freshwater fisheries, such as providing expert advice via the NSW Fisheries Recreational Advisory Council, and via testimony to the NSW Government during amendments to the Fisheries Management Bill in 1997.

This award supports research costs incurred by an honours or post-graduate student in the field of freshwater fish biology or freshwater fisheries ("fish" includes commercially important invertebrates).

Value of Award

The annual value of the awards will be a total of $2,000 for the Winner and $1,000 for the Runner-up. The Society reserves the right not to make an award in any year.

Closing date for applications

31st May
A decision and notification will be made as soon as possible after the deadline, with a formal announcement made at the ASFB annual conference.

Conditions

Applicants must be full or part time honours or post-graduate students in the first or second year of their degree at an Australian or New Zealand university

Applicants must be financial student members of ASFB.
The same research proposal can not be submitted to both the Jonassen and Hall grant schemes in the same year

Process for application

Download the application form (now only need one application for all awards applying for) from the ASFB Member’s Only Page.
Students submitting an application for one/multiple awards must include the application form and a letter of support from their supervisor.
All applications must be submitted to awards@asfb.org.au

Past Award Recipients

Date	Name	Organisation	Research topic
2023	William O'Conner	University of Melbourne	Linking environmental drivers of early life growth to recruitment success in native freshwater fish
2022	Winner: Max Mallett	Griffith University	Hydro-ecological determinants of fish health.
2022	Runner-up: Barbara Nuic Vidigal	University of Queensland	Improving Tasmanian Atlantic salmon production by enhancing antioxidant capacity with glutamine supplementation.
2021	Winner: Nur Un Nesa	James Cook University	Induction of gonadal maturation and egg release using hormones in redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus) to facilitate intensive breeding for commercial juvenile production.
2021	Runner-up: Patricia Koh	University of Melbourne	Environmental drivers of growth and local adaptation in non-native freshwater fish.
2020	Winner: Monique Parisi	University of Queensland	Causes and consequences of hypoxia as a barrier to fish movement in the northern Murray-Darling Basin.
2020	Runner-up: Hung Tan	Monash University	Effects of the pervasive chemical pollutant caffeine on freshwater fish.
2019	Winner: Harriet Goodrich	University of Queensland	Optimising diets for sustainable aquaculture by reducing the energetic costs of digestion.
2019	Runner-up: Geoffrey Pierre Francois Mazue	Sydney University	The flexibility of individual and collective foraging strategies in an invasive species, the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki).
2018	Winner - Isabella Loughland	University of Sydney
2018	Runner-up - Pavel Mikheev	University of Otago
2017	Winner: Maud Kent	University of Sydney	Schooling for success: sociality in an invasive species
2017	Runner-up: Gabriel Cornel	University of Melbourne	Understanding how food and habitat use in a degraded stream can structure fish
2016	William Coates	University of Melbourne	To leave or not to leave: The influence of social context and behavioural syndromes on the dispersal of freshwater fish.
2015	Michael Bertram	Monash University	Sex in troubled waters: effects of widespread agricultural pollutants on fish.
2014	Mae Noble	Australian National University	Population biology and ecology of the threatened Murray River crayfish in upland streams.
2013	Alicia Burns	University of Sydney	The functions and mechanisms of behavioural variation: how individuality may lead to ecological invasions
2012	Jonathan Murphy	Murdoch University	The molecular phylogeography of freshwater fishes in south-western Australia
2011	David Sternberg	Griffith University	Ecological trait diversity in Australian freshwater fish.
2010	Danswell Starrs	Australian National University	Transgenerational labelling - dispersal/mortality in freshwater fishes.
2009	Tyrie Starrs	Australian National University	Modelling the invasion potential of exotic freshwater fish in the ACT rivers.
2008	Danswell Starrs	Australian National University	Environmental impacts on swimming and migration in Macquarie perch.
2007	Catriona Condon	University of Queensland
2006	Andy Hicks	Otago University	Exploring facultative diadromy in galaxids
2002	Not awarded
2001	Bernadette Bostock	Deakin University	A molecular systematic study of some Australian desert fishes with respect to their evolution, Biogeography and conservation status.
2000	Amy Whitehead	University of Otago	Intraspecific comparisons between size classes of giant kokopu.

Publications Arising from Barry Jonassen Award

Coates WD, Hale R, Morrongiello JR (2019) Dispersal decisions and personality in a freshwater fish. Animal Behaviour, 157, 209-218.
Bertram, MG, Saaristo, M, Baumgartner, JB, Johnstone CP, Allinson, M, Allinson, G, Wong, BBM (2015) Sex in troubled waters: Widespread agricultural contaminant disrupts reproductive behaviour in fish. Horm. Behav. 70: 85-91. [2015 winner]
Whitehead AL, David, BO, Closs, GP (2002) Ontogenetic shift in nocturnal microhabitat selection by giant kokopu in a New Zealand stream. J Fish Biol 61, 1373-1385 [2000 winner]
Hicks, AS, Closs, GP, Swearer, SE (2010) Otolith microchemistry of two amphidromous galaxiids across an experimental salinity gradient: a multi-element approach for tracking diadromous migrations. J Exp Mar Biol Ecol 394, 86-97. [2006 winner]
Condon, CH, Chenoweth, SF, Wilson, RS (2010) Zebrafish take their cue from temperature but not photoperiod for the seasonal plasticity of thermal performance. J Exp Biol 213, 3705-3709. [2007 winner]
Starrs, D, Ebner, BC, Lintermans, M, Fulton, CJ (2011) Using sprint swimming performance to predict upstream passage of the endangered Macquarie perch in a highly regulated river. Fisheries Manag Ecol 18, 360-374. [2008 winner]
Sternberg, D, Kennard, MJ (2013) Environmental, spatial and phylogenetic determinants of fish life-history traits and functional composition of Australian rivers. Freshw Biol 58, 1767-1778. [2011 winner]
Sternberg, D, Kennard, MJ (2013) Phylogenetic effects on functional traits and life history strategies of Australian freshwater fish.Ecography 37, 54-64. [2011 winner]
Starrs, D, Davis, JTD, Schlaefer, J, Ebner, BC, Eggins, SM, Fulton, CJ (2014) Maternally transmitted isotopes and their effects on larval fish: a validation of dual isotopic marks within a meta-analysis context. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 71, 387-397. [2010 winner]
Starrs, D, Ebner, BC, Eggins, SM, Fulton, CJ (2014) Longevity in maternal transmission of isotopic marks in a tropical freshwater rainbowfish and the implications for offspring morphology. Mar Freshw Res 65, 400-408. [2010 winner]
Starrs, T, Starrs, D, Lintermans, M, Fulton, CJ (2015) Assessing upstream invasion risk in alien freshwater fishes based on intrinsic variations in swimming speed performance. Ecol Freshw Fish doi:10.1111/eff.12256 [2009 winner]
Noble, MM, Fulton, CJ (2016) Habitat specialization and sensitivity to change in a threatened crayfish occupying upland streams. Aquat Conserv Mar Freshw Ecosys doi:10.1002/aqc.2620 [2014 winner]