The President of ASSCT awards two medals at each conference - one for the best research paper and one for the best industry paper.
The best research paper is usually one that describes an exciting development that may or may not have given benefits to the industry at the time the award is presented, but is expected to provide benefits in the future.
The best industry paper describes work that has obvious industry benefits, and these benefits may already be apparent.
The President may choose to use different selection criteria for the awards and, sometimes, awards are given to researchers who have presented a series of papers over a number of years on an important topic.
2024 Presidents Medal
Best Research paper: Samuel Bawa for the paper titled Using novel screening methods for evaluating insecticides against canegrubs Authors: SA Bawa, C Emtia, H Farnan, KS Powell
Best Industry paper: Line Jenssen for the paper titled Measured and predicted consistency values for C massecuite. Authors: L Jenssen, R Broadfoot
2024 Poster Awards
Best poster paper in the Manufacturing section: Georgia Nilon and Matthew Richter for the poster paper A suspected Maillard reaction in a continuous c massecuite pan - findings and outcomes Authors: G Nilon, M Richter
Best poster paper in the Agricultural section: Somwang Leekar for the poster paper Potential of UAV imagery and learning techniques for determining gaps in sugarcane rows Authors: S Leekar, TA Jensen, A Chumpia, BL Schroeder
2023 Presidents Medal
Best Research paper: Phil Patane for the paper titled Development of the decision-support tool ‘Harvest Mate’: agronomic algorithms.
Best Industry paper: Lino Santarossa for his involvement with the loco drive train improvements suite of paper.
2023 Poster Awards
Best poster paper in the Manufacturing section: Matt Richter for the paper Impact of lime saccharate addition to mud filter feed on mud loss and station retention.
Best poster paper in the Agricultural section: Kevin Powell for the paper Exotic moth borers – preparing for any incursion.
2022 Presidents Medal
Best Research paper: Dr Darryn Rackemann
2022 Poster Awards
Best poster paper in the Manufacturing section: Leo Kenny for poster titled: Managing Legacy Control Systems
2021 Presidents Medal
Best Research paper: Joint recipients Lihan Zhao (SRA Indooroopilly), Clair Bolton (SRA Indooroopilly), George Piperidis (SRA TeKowai) and Jason Eglinton (SRA Gordonvale)
Best Industry paper: Matt Kealley.
2019 Poster Awards
Best poster paper in the Agricultural section: Karen Aitken for her poster titled: Genetic analysis and marker delivery for sugarcane breeding.