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The winner of the 2001 WE Wood Award, Australia's most prestigious award for excellence in salinity research and development, will present the annual WE Wood Memorial Lecture at the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia, on Friday, 23 November 2001, from 8.45am.The Governor of Western Australia, His Excellency Lieutenant General John Sanderson AC, will announce the 2001 winner at a special ceremony to be held the previous evening.
The annual lecture celebrates the success of the WE Wood Award winner and provides a thought-provoking forum exploring advances in salinity research and development.
Australia's National Dryland Salinity Program (NDSP) sponsors this important award for outstanding scientific or technical excellence, which recognises a unique contribution to managing salinity over a sustained period of many years.
The award recalls Walter Ernest Wood, a railway engineer who observed the link between land clearing and the development of salinity in railway dams in Western Australia. His distinguished and far-sighted observations regarding this relationship were first published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia in March 1924.
Previous recipients of the award include inaugural winner, Dr Tom Hatton, CSIRO Land and Water, in 1999 and Dr Richard George, salinity manager with the Western Australia Department of Agriculture in 2000.
The 2001 WE Wood Memorial Lecture will be held at the Exhibition Hall, Constitutional Centre, West Perth. The one-hour lecture commences at 8.45am, concluding with morning tea. The event is free, however seating is limited. To assist with catering requirements, please register for the event by contacting Jo Brown on (08) 9368 3710 before 20 November 2001.
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For further information please contact:
Please contact Land & Water Australia
Email: land&wateraustralia@lwa.gov.au
Phone: 02 6263 6000