{"id":1630,"date":"2022-05-24T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T05:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:30:51","slug":"ken-preston-dick-sanders-awarded-the-2021-leichhardt-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1630","title":{"rendered":"Ken Preston &#038; Dick Sanders awarded the 2021 Leichhardt Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ken &amp; Dick&#8217;s Leichhardt award citations can be viewed by clicking&nbsp;on the links below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:12px\">Interview with Ken Preston and Dick Sanders after receiving the 2021 Leichhardt Award at the 2021 Bowen Basin Symposium<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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; Ken Preston &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/?p=1630\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ken Preston &#038; Dick Sanders awarded the 2021 Leichhardt Award<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1701,"featured_media":1626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbggnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbgg.cqu.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}