Scott Hocknull Explained
Scott Hocknull (born 1977) is a vertebrate palaeontologist and Senior Curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He was the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award.[1]
He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera.[2]
Early life
Scott Hocknull was born in Adelaide, South Australia. His family moved to Brisbane when he was 12. He enrolled in a B.Sc. at the University of Queensland in 1996, majoring in zoology and geology. He took his degree with Honours in 2000.[3]
Career
Hocknull worked at the Queensland Museum during his university studies. After graduation he became a curator in geosciences at the Queensland Museum. He became senior curator in 2002.
He took his doctorate from the University of New South Wales, in 2009.[4]
In cooperation with the original finder Robyn Mackenzie, Hocknull published the description of Australotitan cooperensis.[5]
Awards
- Young Australian of the Year for Queensland, 2002
- National and Queensland Career Achiever, 2002
- Queensland Science and Technology Achiever, 2002
- National Career Achiever, 2002
- Centenary Medalist, 2003
- Neville Stephens Medal, Geological Society of Australia, 2005
- Riversleigh Medal, 2009
- Queensland's best and brightest - The Courier Mail, 2009
- Rising Stars of Queensland Science, 2015
- 10 Best of the Best of Queensland's 50 Top Thinkers, 2015
References
- Web site: Young Australian of the Year 2002. National Australia Day Council. 29 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103614/http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&year=2002&recipientID=145. 2 February 2014.
- http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2002/jan/studentYoungAust.html Profile at UNSW.edu
- Web site: Scott Hocknull - Faculty of Science - The University of Queensland, Australia. www.science.uq.edu.au. en. 2017-06-09.
- Web site: Dr Scott Hocknull. Museum. Queensland Government. www.qm.qld.gov.au. 2017-06-09.
- https://peerj.com/articles/11317/ Hocknull SA, Wilkinson M, Lawrence RA, Konstantinov V, Mackenzie S, Mackenzie R. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9:e11317
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