Two awards for Eawag scientists

Prizes for work by up-and-coming researchers have been awarded to not one but two young Eawag scientists. Last weekend Linda Roberts received the Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize for her dissertation on arsenic levels found in Bangladeshi paddy fields and Natacha Pasche was presented with the 2010 Hydrobiology-Limnology Award for her dissertation on nutrient cycling and methane production in Lake Kivu in Africa.

The Otto Jaag Water Protection Prize, which comes with a cheque for 1,000 francs, is awarded for outstanding dissertations and master’s theses written at ETH Zurich and addressing the theme of hydrology and water protection. The prize was awarded on ETH Day of Saturday, 20 Nov 2010.

The 2010 Hydrobiology-Limnology Award, sponsored by the Hydrobiology-Limnology Foundation for Water Research, this year recognises outstanding doctoral works and was presented at the University of Freiburg at the General Meeting of the Swiss Society for Hydrology and Limnology during the 8th Swiss Geoscience Meeting on 20 Nov 2010. The award includes a cheque for 5,000 francs.