A Griffith University research team have taken out a prestigious 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for their work trying to save the Great Barrier Reef.
The team, led by Associate Professor Andrew Brooks of the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, have discovered what may be Australia’s best chance of doing something timely to help the reef, transforming how sediment sources are identified and targeted.
As winners of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research, the team were recognised at the Award Dinner at Sydney Town Hall on Wednesday night.
Griffith University’s 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prize winners
Sediment run-off is one of the most significant threats to the natural wonder next to climate change.
About 900,000 dump trucks of dirt flows out to the Reef on average each year.
In the first study of its kind, scientists traced the path of fine sediment from its origin in the Normanby catchment in Cape York – the fourth largest
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