Dr Strzepek (left) receives his award from New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
Robert Strzepek, a visiting scientist in the Research School of Earth Sciences, has won the New Zealand Prime Minister's Science prize. Strzepek is part of a team of researchers from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and the University of Otago in New Zealand who have taken out the $500,000 award. The nine-member team has been investigating the potential role the ocean has in influencing climate change over the past one million years. They examined how manipulating the oceans to remove carbon dioxide could mitigate or help solve global warming. Strzepek, who will join ANU permanently as a research fellow in January 2012, said the win came as a total surprise. "We are all very passionate about what we do, and never expected this kind of recognition. Having said that, it is immensely satisfying and humbling to receive it," he said.
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