{"id":126,"date":"2025-03-17T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/?page_id=126"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T06:40:06","slug":"sera-awards-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/sera-awards\/sera-awards-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"SERA Awards 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SERA AWARDS FOR RESTORATION EXCELLENCE &#8211; 2018<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 27 September 2018 the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia announced the winners of the SERA awards for excellence in ecological restoration practice for projects from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The awards were presented at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/2025\/04\/15\/sera-conference-2018-brisbane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"296\">SERA2018<\/a>\u00a0conference in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This award acknowledges individuals or organisations that have made a significant and enduring contribution to the practice of ecological restoration through outstanding on-ground restoration projects. The two subcategories are (a) Larger scale projects (i.e. 50ha and greater) and (b) Smaller scale projects (i.e. below 50 ha). Nominations were open for outstanding projects from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands for SERA\u2019s biennial awards for (i) excellence in ecological restoration practice, (ii) the most outstanding student project and (iii) extractive industries restoration excellence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WINNERS<\/strong><br \/>Cash prizes of AUD $ 2,000 &#8211; awarded to two projects project above 50ha in size<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash prize of AUD $1,000 &#8211; awarded to one below 50ha in size\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash prize of AUD $1,000 &#8211; awarded to student engaged in research relating to ecological restoration.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winners were announced at the Gala Dinner with 15 finalists in the running.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOINT WINNERS FOR THE LARGE PROJECT CATEGORY (&gt;50HA)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/2025\/04\/15\/case-study-7-lord-howe-island-new-south-wales-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"294\"><strong>Lord Howe Island Board:\u00a0<\/strong>For achievement of internationally significant restoration of the World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/2025\/04\/15\/case-study-6-long-swamp-discovery-bay-coastal-park-victoria-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"293\"><strong>Nature Glenelg Trust<\/strong>: The Long Swamp Restoration Project<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SMALL PROJECT WINNER (&lt;50HA)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/2025\/04\/15\/case-study-8-wompoo-gorge-south-new-south-wales-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"295\">Wampoo Gorge Restoration Project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>STUDENT WINNER<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr Nicholas Gellie<\/strong>: For innovation in applying eDNA research in restoration monitoring<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A special commendation award was made to Simone Pedrini in the Student Award category for his outstanding support and services to SERA particularly in the development of the phone App for the Recovery Wheel.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERA AWARDS FOR RESTORATION EXCELLENCE &#8211; 2018 On 27 September 2018 the Society for Ecological Restoration Australasia announced the winners of the SERA awards for excellence in ecological restoration practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"parent":124,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-126","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/126\/revisions\/530"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.ser.org\/australasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}