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Thursday, 18 March 2010

The Faculty is delighted to offer our congratulations to Samuel Cleary, final year Environmental Systems Engineering student, who has won the AWA National Undergraduate of the Year Award at Ozwater 2010 , with his paper ' Targeting strategic tree and perennial plantings to reduce stream salinity in the Warren River Catchment'.

"I expanded on the last couple of presentations as I had more time, so included such concepts as the roader application of the modelling process and the methodology of strategic planting as well as the next steps in the process to understanding more of the knowledge required for correct implementation of the planting scenarios. Well, the judges seemed to like it as I was presented with the National Title at the Gala Dinner last night" said Samuel.

Winthrop Professor Keith Smettem , Samuel's supervisor commented on the achievement "This is a great result and follows on from Ali Barrett-Lennard's success last year . Both Ali and Sam were winners of the State Award and Ali was placed nationally."

Whilst at the conference, held in Brisbane, Samuel met 2003 SESE Graduates Tung Nguyen and Sabina Tariq who were finalists in the National AWA Young Water Professionals Award.

The Undergraduate Water Prize is open to all final year students whose final year project is on a water related topic.

This prestigious award aims to encourage and reward students for excellence in the field of water studies and research. It provides a forum for students to display their academic excellence and research findings to future employees, clients and the water industry.

This is a fantastic achievement from this young engineer in this early stage of his career.

Pictured in the attached photo is Samuel collecting his award from AWA President Peter Robinson .

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