281 2017 Australian Academy of Science Awards The Australian Academy of Science has very recently announced its 2017 Honorific awards for scientific excellence, including two mathematicians. Our congratulations to Frank and Joshua. 2017 Hannan Medal Dr Frank Robert de Hoog FTSE, CSIRO Data61 The prestigious Hannan Medal is a career honorific awards recognising life-long achievement in the advancement of any of the fields of statistical science, pure mathematics, applied mathematics and computational mathematics. It honours the contribution to time series analysis of the late Professor E.J. Hannan, FAA, Professor of Statistics at the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University. Dr de Hoog is recognised internationally as having made highly original and in- sightful contributions to the advancement of applied, computational and industrial mathematics, and has contributed substantially to the mathematics profession. The importance and significance of his theoretical and applied contributions, and their flow-on contributions to the advancement of science and to improving the efficiency of industrial processes, have been recognised by various awards. The impact of his industrial research has been exceptional in terms of the speed of implementation by industry and the subsequent contributions to Australia’s export economy. 2017 Moran Medal Associate Professor Joshua Ross, School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide The Moran Medal recognises the contributions to science of the late P.A.P. Moran, FAA. Its purpose is to recognise outstanding research by scientists up to 10 years post-PhD in the calendar year of nomination, except in the case of significant interruptions to a research career, in one or more of the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics and statistics. Dr Ross has made important and influential contributions to Applied Probabil- ity and Statistics, and through application to Conservation Biology and Public Health. His research has focused predominately on addressing problems arising in infectious disease epidemiology and conservation biology, though the methodo- logical developments that he has provided to solve such problems are more widely applicable. These application topics are of great importance, and his contributions to these fields are significant..