Scott Hocknull
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Scott Hocknull is a vertebrate palaeontologist and assistant curator in Geology at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. He is the 2002 recipient of the Young Australian of the Year Award. He is the youngest Australian to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera [1].
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Hocknull majored in Geology and Zoology at the University of Queensland, completing his BSc in 1997 before completing his honours thesis on "The Phylogeny and Fossil Record of Australopapuan dragon lizards (Squamata: Agamidae)". He later earned his PhD at the University of New South Wales. Throughout this time he was an active volunteer at the Queensland Museum. His current PhD research is focussed on the succession of Pleistocene rainforest faunas on eastern Australia.
[edit] Awards
[edit] External links
- Scott Hocknull at Queensland Museum
- Young Australian of the Year
| Preceded by James Fitzpatrick |
Young Australian of the Year 2002 |
Succeeded by Lleyton Hewitt |
