A Griffith University research team are finalists in the 2017 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes for their work aimed at improving Great Barrier Reef water quality.
The team, led by Associate Professor Andrew Brooks of the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management, has transformed how sediment sources are identified and targeted, resulting in a significant shift in government policy and practice.
As finalists in the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage Eureka Prize for Environmental Research category, the team will attend the Award Dinner in Sydney in late August.
Along with climate change, poor water quality from catchment runoff is a key threat to the Great Barrier Reef.
Associate Professor Brooks said catchment models had been central to focusing management efforts but models were only as good as the data they were built on.
Griffith undertook a comprehensive research program, funded through the Australian Government’s Reef Rescue program, within the Normanby Basin in Cape York, the fourth largest catchment draining to the Reef.
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