Prince Sultan Water Award Winners
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Four Research Teams from the United States and Individuals from Spain and Greece Were Announced as Winners of the 6th Award of the Prince Sultan International Prize for Water
Four research teams from the United States and individuals from Spain and Greece were announced as winners of the 6th Award of the Prince Sultan International Prize for Water.
The winners were announced during a meeting of the Prize Council in Riyadh on October 12, with PSIPW Council chairman Prince Khaled Bin Sultan presiding.
For Creativity, the prize worth SR1 million was split between the team of Dr. Eric F Wood and Dr. Justin Sheffield of Princeton University and the GPS Reflections Group led by Dr. Kristine M. Larson of University of Colorado, Boulder, which included Professor Eric Small (University of Colorado), Dr. Valery Zavorotny (NOAA) and Dr. John Braun of (UCAR).
The first team was awarded for inventing a sophisticated system for high-accuracy drought predictions at both regional and continental levels, while the other team was recognized for developing a new low-cost technique to measure soil moisture, snow depth, and water content.
Four individual researchers won prizes of SR500,000 each for their groundbreaking research regarding groundwater and its salinity in semi-arid areas, as well as detoxification process and methods of operating water resources systems.
The Surface Water Prize went to Dr. Larry Mays (Arizona State University) for his comprehensive work in surface water hydrology and water resources engineering.
Dr. Jesús Carrera Ramirez (Institute for Environmental Assessment and Water Research in Barcelona, Spain, won the Groundwater Prize "for his decisive contributions to the development of mathematical hydrogeology and transport modeling in groundwater systems."
The Water Management & Protection Prize went to Dr. William W-G. Yeh (University of California, Los Angeles), "for developing of optimization models to plan, manage and operate large-scale water resources systems throughout the world."
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