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ACRI congratulates Marsden Grant Awardees
12 September 2006
ACRI congratulates Marsden Grant Awardees
The Association of Crown Research Institutes congratulates the 78 researchers awarded a total of $39.1 million in Marsden Fund grants for the next 2 to 3 years. Eight CRI researchers were awarded $3.7 million.
Marsden Fund grants support “excellent research and researchers” around ideas-driven research.
ACRI executive director Anthony Scott said all recipients deserved congratulations, but that he was particularly delighted with the success of the CRI researchers.
“CRI researchers focus on excellence around outcome-driven programmes, with research driven primarily by client requirements and strategic needs.
“Releasing and resourcing their best researchers to take time out to ‘follow their nose’ beyond their day to day work can be a hard task for CRIs.
“But the CRIs top researchers also need the time and resources simply to explore from time to time. The Marsden Fund allows that and also emphasises that CRI researchers are definitely amongst the nation’s best.”
Eight researchers from six CRIs received grants totaling $3.705 million over the next three years. These range from $140,000 over 2 years to $720,000 over 3 years.
Three are Fast Start grants for outstanding new researchers. These are in molecular biology, seismic events, and ecosystems.
The other five are researching DNA evidence, fluids and liquids in high-temperature superconductors and in nanoparticles; parasites, ecosystems and deep sea volcano eruptions. Two are as co-principal investigators with academics.
Marsden Fund
Research
funded from the Marsden Fund is not subject to priorities
set by the Government. The Fund enhances New Zealand’s
underpinning knowledge base and broadens and deepens the
research skill-base.
The Marsden Fund also provides for long-term and the sometimes serendipitous aspects of research. This may lead to profound or unexpected discoveries, or catalyse significant developments in previously-unrelated and strategically-important fields of knowledge.
Marsden Fund grants to CRI
researchers
September 2006
Dr AR Pitman (Fast
Start)
Crop & Food Research
Bacterial evolution in
quantum leaps: The molecular basis for mobility of
pathogenicity islands
• $140K over 2 years
Professor
GR Midgley
Institute of Environmental Science and
Research (ESR), with Dr VM Grace, University of
Canterbury
CSI: New Zealand! The meanings of DNA
evidence
• $624,000 over 3 years
Dr P Villamor-Perez
(Fast Start)
GNS Science
Chicken or egg? The link
between earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in New
Zealand’s Taupo Volcanic Zone
• $140K over 2
years
Dr JL Tallon
Industrial Research Ltd
Quantum
soup: What is the quantum fluid in high-temperature
superconductors?
• $625,000 over 3 years
Dr SC
Hendy
Industrial Research Ltd, with Dr B Ingham,
Industrial Research Ltd
How small is a liquid? Precursors
to melting in nanoparticles
• $730,000 over 3
years
Dr DM Tompkins
Landcare Research
Is parasite
spillback a cause of local extinction in native
communities?
• $586,110 over 3 years
Dr AML Lohrer
(Fast Start)
NIWA (National Institute of Water &
Atmospheric Research)
Extending ecological function
experiments to ecosystem scales
• $140,000 over 2
years
Professor CJN Wilson,
The University of Auckland
with Dr IC Wright, NIWA
The dynamics of deep marine
explosive volcanic eruptions: insights from the Kermadec
Arc
• $720,000 over 3
years
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