Ecological Society of Australia Student Research grant (2011)

Australian Postgraduate Award (2010-current)

UOW undergraduate science academic scholarship (2004-2007)

Dean’s Merit List for academic performance (2006)

Geoscience Australia award for First in Earth and Environment Sciences subjects (2006)

Second in third year biology (2006)

Research Assistantship with Colgate University, New York, USA (2006)

First in first-year geology (2005)

Prospectors Estwing geology prize (2005)

First in second year geology (2005)

Third in second year biology (2005)