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August Focus
WALIS’ Own Receives Top Award at the Western Australian Spatial Excellence Awards (WASEA)
The 3rd
WA Spatial Excellence Awards, jointly
hosted by the Spatial Industries Business Association and the Surveying and
Spatial Sciences Institute, were held on Friday July 17.
It was a gala event at the UWA Club with an audience of 150. Hon Wendy Duncan MLC officiated at the event, with Geoffrey Higham as Master of Ceremonies.
WALIS Director Marnie Leybourne was presented with the top individual honour, the Professional Eminence and Excellence in Spatial Sciences individual award for her contributions to the profession and to the community.
Marnie joined WALIS in 2004 and since that time, there has been a most successful coalition between the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI, formerly SSI), Spatial Industries Business Association (SIBA, formerly ASIBA), WALIS and the CRC for Spatial Information.
Other areas of Marnie’s involvement include the inaugural chair of Women in Geographic Information Technology (WinGIT) in 2005, joining the SSI Regional Committee in 2006, chair of SSI in WA and then being elected National President of SSI in 2008, where she achieved the previously failed task of forming one consolidated Institute for Australian Professionals – the Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI).
In addition, several WALIS member agencies were recognised in the industry award categories. The Department of Environment and Conservation won the Environment and Sustainability category with its “NatureMap”, an online window to WA’s biodiversity. The Department of Health was highly commended in the same category for its work on developing a platform to more easily respond to environmental health issues such as the Esperance lead issue. This project is being funded through the CRCSI and has the potential of being expanded across Australia in the future.
Main Roads, another WALIS member agency, worked jointly with Insight Survey Pty Ltd on the new Perth Bunbury Highway. This project not only won the infrastructure and construction category, it was also the joint overall winner in the industry awards as its innovative approach to surveying the highway will radically change the industry into the future. The other joint overall winner was DOF Subsea due to its work in finding HMAS Sydney.
Congratulations to all the winners.
Individual awards
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Spatial Student – Undergraduate: |
Wade Perrin |
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Spatial Student – Postgraduate: |
Deanna Wilson |
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Spatial Teacher of the Year: |
Pam Tuffin |
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Education and Professional Development: |
Martin Robinson |
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Young Spatial Professional: |
Renee Glasson |
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Spatial Professional of the Year: |
Rebecca Handcock |
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Service to the Spatial Community: |
Graham Marion |
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Professional Eminence and Excellence in Spatial Sciences: |
Marnie Leybourne |
Industry awards
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Infrastructure and Construction: |
Insight Survey Pty Ltd, with “New Perth Bunbury Highway” |
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People and Community: |
DOF Subsea, with “Finding HMAS Sydney” |
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Community and Education:
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Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, with “Curtin University Canning Stock Route Survey Expedition” |
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Innovation and Commercialisation:
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NGIS China Ltd and CISDI Engineering Co Ltd, with “Creating an Environmental Impact Assessment Platform for CISDI in Chongqing, China, Using an Advanced 3D Modelling Application” |
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Environment and Sustainability – Winner: |
Department of Environment and Conservation, with “Naturemap – Mapping Western Australia’s Biodiversity” |
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Environment and Sustainability - Highly Commended: |
Department of Health, with “Esperance Lead Investigation Information Portal” |
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Surveying and Mapping: |
Fugro Survey Pty Ltd, with “Lidar Mapping Project in the Torres Strait” |
The joint overall winners for excellence were DOF Subsea and Insight Survey Pty Ltd.