Scott Hocknull

Scott Hocknull 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.

He is the youngest Australian to date to hold a museum curatorship and has described and named 10 new species and four new genera.

Awards

• 2009 Riversleigh Society Medal for Excellence in promoting understanding of Australian Prehistory
• 2009 Queensland's 50 Best and Brightest, Queensland Courier Mail
• 2007 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Finalist
• 2007 Finalist, Eve Pownell Award for Information Books, Amazing Facts about Australian Dinosaurs.
• 2005 Neville Stevens Medal Geological Society of Australia's Neville Stevens Medal for Science Communication.
• 2003 Centenary Medalist
• 2003 Finalist Eureka Awards British Council for Inspiring Science
• 2003 Eureka Science Award Finalist
• 2002 Young Australian of the Year
• 2002 Young Queenslander of the Year
• 2002 National Career Achiever
• 2002 Queensland Career Achiever
• 2002 Queensland Science & Technology Achiever
• 1997 Best student presentation Award, 6th Conference of Australian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, 1997 (as a High School student presenting with Under and Post Graduate students).

Published Papers

Hocknull SA, Piper PJ, van den Bergh GD, Due RA, Morwood MJ, Due RA, Morwood MJ, Kurniawan I,. (2009). Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution and Extinction of theLargest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae). PLoS ONE; 4(9)

Cramb, J; Hocknull, SA; Webb, GE (2009). High diversity Pleistocene rainforest Dasyurid assemblages with implications for the radiation of the dasyuridae AUSTRAL ECOLOGY. 34: 6, pp 663–669.

Hocknull, SA; White, MA; Tischler, TR, Cook AG, Calleja ND, Sloan T, Elliott DA (2009). New Mid-Cretaceous (Latest Albian) Dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia. PLOS ONE. 4: 7 e6190.

Hocknull, SA.; Cook, AG (2008). Hypsilophodontid (Dinosauria : Ornithischia) from latest Albian, Winton formation, central Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 52: Part 2: pp212.

Hocknull, SA (2005) Ecological succession during the late Cainozoic of central eastern Queensland: Extinction of a diverse rainforest community. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: Part 1, pp39–122

Price, GJ.; and Hocknull, SA (2005). A small adult Palorchestes (Marsupialia, Palorchestidae) from the Pleistocene of the Darling Downs, southeast Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 51: 1, pp 202.

Hocknull, SA (2003) Etnabatrachus maximus gen. et sp. nov., a Plio-Pleistocene frog from Mount Etna, central eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 49: 1, 327-330

Hocknull, SA (2002). Comparative maxillary and dentary morphology of the Australian dragons (Agamidae: Squamata): A framework for fossil identification. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 48: 1, pp 125–145

Hocknull, SA (2000). Remains of an Eocene skink from Queensland. ALCHERINGA. 24: 1-2, pp 63–64

Hocknull, SA (2000). Mesozoic freshwater and estuarine bivalves from Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 45: 2, pp 405–426

Hocknull, SA (1997). Cretaceous freshwater bivalves from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 42: 1, pp 223–226

Hocknull, SA (1994). A new freshwater bivalve from the Triassic of southeastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 37: 1, pp 146 Published

External links

• Scott Hocknull profile at Queensland Museum

Awards
Preceded by James Fitzpatrick	Young Australian of the Year 2002	Succeeded by Lleyton Hewitt