{"id":1622,"date":"2022-05-24T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=1622"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T05:19:36","slug":"ken-preston-dick-sanders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=1622","title":{"rendered":"Ken Preston &#038; Dick Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2021 LEICHHARDT AWARD RECIPIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1626\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/BBS2021-392-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><figcaption>Ken Preston (left) &amp; Dick Sanders (right) with The Leichhardt Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ken Preston and Dick Sanders were awarded the 2021 Leichhardt Award during the 2021 Bowen Basin Symposium Dinner, hosted at The Big Shed in Mackay, Queensland. &nbsp;The award dinner followed the second day&#8217;s proceedings of the &nbsp;2021 Bowen Basin Symposium, held at the Mackay Entertainment &amp; Convention Centre on 28-30 March 2022. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Preston and Dick Sanders developed an equation to estimate the density of coal more accurately, which has become part of the industry&#8217;s lexicon known as the Preston-Sanders equation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken &amp; Dick&#8217;s Leichhardt award citations can be viewed by clicking&nbsp;on the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Citations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-Leichhardt-Award-2021-Citation-Ken-Preston.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-Leichhardt-Award-2021-Citation-Ken-Preston.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ken Preston<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-Leichhardt-Award-2021-Citation-Dick-Sanders.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/The-Leichhardt-Award-2021-Citation-Dick-Sanders.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dick Sanders<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ken_preston_and_dick_sanders-720p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">Interview with Ken Preston and Dick Sanders after receiving their award during the 2021 Bowen Basin Symposium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2021 LEICHHARDT AWARD RECIPIENTS Ken Preston and Dick Sanders were awarded the 2021 Leichhardt Award during the 2021 Bowen Basin Symposium Dinner, hosted at The Big Shed in Mackay, Queensland. &nbsp;The award dinner followed the second day&#8217;s proceedings of the &nbsp;2021 Bowen Basin Symposium, held at the Mackay Entertainment &amp; Convention Centre on 28-30 March &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?page_id=1622\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ken Preston &#038; Dick Sanders<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1701,"featured_media":0,"parent":746,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1622","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1622\/revisions\/1687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}