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Land & Water Australia is sponsoring the Water Research and Innovation Eureka Prize through the Australian Museum. The awards will be celebrated on 21 August in Sydney with our Chairman, Bobbie Brazil, presenting the prize.
The Land & Water Australia Eureka Prize is awarded to an individual, team or organisation for research and innovation that has made or has the potential to make an outstanding contribution to the sustainable use and management of Australia's water resources.
The winner of the 2007 Eureka Prize for Water Research and Innovation Professor Shahbaz Khan and his team from CSIRO and Charles Sturt University, for research conducted to improve understanding of water, nutrients and salt balances in the Murrumbidgee River catchment in NSW.
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The finalists this year are:
- Dr David Nash from the Victorian Department of Primary Industries, for research into agricultural management of nutrients and fertilisers and their impacts on water quality.
- Professor Matthew England and his team from the University of New South Wales, for discovering a pattern of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature anomalies that precedes rainfall extremes over southwest WA and contributes to improved predictability of fresh water supply.
More information on each of the finalists can be found on the Eureka Prize Website.