Our paper on the Kenn Plateau in the northern Tasman Sea received the Stillwell Award 2006 of the Geological Society of Australia for the best paper:

N. F. Exon, P. J. Hill, Y. Lafoy, C. Heine and G. Bernardel: Kenn Plateau off northeast Australia: a continental fragment in the southwest Pacific jigsaw. 53, 541­564.
doi: 10.1080/08120090600632300

I presented two talks at the Earth2006 Australian Geological Convention in Melbourne this week:

• "Anomalous tectonic subsidence in Australian intraplate basins" in the session "Geodynamics of Earth’s Evolution (Basins, breakup and continental evolution)":
• "Deciphering intraplate basin evolution using open-source software" in the session "Resourcing and Innovation (Geoinformatics)"

PDFs of the talks are available upon request.

This was another reason to go.

I received the "Young authors' award" from the Geological Society of Australia for the 2005 paper in AJES The award will be presented at he Earth2006 conference in Melbourne in July.