Scott Hocknull
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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.{{cite web|title=Young Australian of the Year 2002|url=http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&year=2002&recipientID=145|publisher=National Australia Day Council|accessdate=29 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202103614/http://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/honour-roll/?view=fullView&year=2002&recipientID=145|archive-date=2 February 2014}}
He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera.[http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2002/jan/studentYoungAust.html Profile at UNSW.edu]
Early life
Scott Hocknull was born in Adelaide, South Australia. His family moved to Brisbane when he was 12. He went to Kooralbyn International School the only school to have produced to Young Australian of the Year recipients, the other being Cathy Freeman. 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.science.uq.edu.au/scott-hocknull|title=Scott Hocknull - Faculty of Science - The University of Queensland, Australia|website=www.science.uq.edu.au|language=en|access-date=2017-06-09}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Research/People/People/Profile/H/Scott+Hocknull#.WToVYROGPIE|title=Dr Scott Hocknull|last=Museum|first=Queensland Government|website=www.qm.qld.gov.au|access-date=2017-06-09}}
In cooperation with the original finder Robyn Mackenzie, Hocknull published the description of Australotitan cooperensis.[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], persistent access [https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11317 doi]
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
External links
{{Wikinews|Three new dinosaurs discovered in Australia}}
- [https://www.museum.qld.gov.au/collections-and-research/staff-profiles/dr-scott-hocknull Scott Hocknull profile at Queensland Museum]
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Category:Australian paleontologists