Water research in good hands
Research that is helping to improve the management of Australia's rivers, estuaries, harbours and coastlines has been awarded the Land & Water Australia Eureka Prize for Water Research.
The Land & Water Australia Prize for Water Research has been awarded to CSIRO's Centre for Environmental Contaminants Research (CECR) for its research on the assessment of sediments in waterways for toxic contaminants.
The prize is awarded for a scientific research project that has the potential to lead to substantial change in the way Australia manages, uses or protects its water and water-dependent ecosystems.
The winning team of Dr Graeme Batley, Stuart Simpson and Jenny Stauber has developed methods for testing sediment contamination that are changing the way sediments are assessed around the world.
In 2000, the CECR team developed a risk based approach, with guidelines that led to more investigations if certain levels of contamination were detected. Those guidelines are now being refined and extended to other substances.
Batley said we can now be far more confident that they reflect the actual levels of contamination that will impact on the ecosystem.
"That means we can concentrate our efforts and money on where the real problems lie, rather than diluting them through a lack of understanding," Batley said.
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