Chilean Students Winners of the 2013 Stockholm Junior Water Prize
The students Naomi Estay and Omayra Toro from Chile received the 2013 Stockholm Junior Water Prize today for their work on how living organisms can help clean oil spills in extremely low temperatures. H.R.H. Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden presented the prize at the award ceremony at the World Water Week.
The Chilean team travelled to Antarctica and managed to identify a whole dozen of bacterial strains with the potential to clean up oil spills, by metabolising it, in extremely low temperatures.
Earlier winners:
- 2012: Luigi Marshall Cham, Jun Yong Nicholas Lim and Tian Ting Carrie-Anne Ng, Singapore
Diploma of Excellence: Alonso Alvarez and Daniel Barrientos, Chile. - 2011: Alison Bick, USA
Diploma of Excellence: Prasan Warnakula from Sri Lanka - 2010: Alexandre Allard and Danny Luong, Canada
Diplomas of Excellence: Yingxin Li, Zhaonan Yang and Wanling Chen, China - 2009: Ceren Burçak Dag, Turkey
Diplomas of Excellence: Emily Elhacham, Israel; Mary Zhao, Canada - 2008: Joyce Chai, USA
Diplomas of Excellence: Alexey Shinkarev, Russia; R. D. Dasun Thakshala siriwardana, Sandun Gayath Sameera Dissanayaka, and A. Sujith Madushan Silva, Sri Lanka - 2007: Adriana Alcántara Ruiz, Dalia Graciela Díaz Gómez and Carlos Hernández Mejía, Mexico
Diploma of Excellence: Yang Guo, Junhong Wu and Sisi Yu, China - 2006: Wang Hao, Xiao Yi and Weng Jie, China
Diploma of Excellence: Satomi Kosho, Naomi Sugimoto and Sae Nishino, Japan - 2005: Pontso Moletsane, Motebele Moshodi and Sechaba Ramabenyane, South Africa
Diplomas of Excellence: Ricardo Martín Robledo and Antonio de la Cruz Cáceres, Argentina; Itzel García Silvia and Liliana Vargas Meneses, Mexico; and Marc Campeny Crego and Marc Oliva Bernal, Spain - 2004: Tsutomu Kawahira, Daisuke Sunakawa and Kaori Yamaguti, Japan
Diplomas of Excellence: Ron Neuman, Israel - 2003: Claire Reid, South Africa
- 2002: Katherine Holt, USA
- 2001: Magnus Isacson, Johan Nilvebrant and Rasmus Öman, Sweden
- 2000: Ashley Mulroy, USA
- 1999: Rosa Lozano, Elisabeth Pozo and Rocío Ruiz, Spain
- 1998: Robert Franke, Germany
- 1997: Stephen Tinnin, USA
