About CWR
The Centre for Water Research was created in 1981 as a result of a joint University of Western Australia and WA State Government initiative. Over the last twenty six years the Centre has received State and Federal government funding and funding from a range of national and international public and private organizations.
The Centre for Water Research today has three axioms: Research, Services and Postgraduate teaching.
CWR undertakes fundamental and applied research in three areas - water, carbon, and sustainability. Our mission is to create tools and systems to quantify sustainability in river basins based on the building blocks of water and carbon.
CWR provides a range of world-class research services for the management of the aquatic environment. CWR has a long history of working with clients and local consultants to deliver leading edge technologies for the management of aquatic systems.
CWR delivers a strong postgraduate programme in natural systems engineering. Project areas range from environmental fluid dynamics, aquatic ecosystems dynamics, to sustainability.
Over the years the work undertaken by staff at the Centre has received international recognition. CWR's technology is used in the supply of 50% of Australia's water and internationally to service about 50 million people with water. CWR has research partners in Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, Israel, Chile, Argentina, Italy, Columbia and Kenya and is currently setting up the Centre for Tropical Water Research in Singapore. CWR has also expanded its operations in Australia with an office in Melbourne.
Staff and students publish regularly in internationally refereed journals, present papers at major international conferences and the Centre is host to many international visitors. The Director of the Centre, Professor Jorg Imberger, has been awarded a range of international and national prizes. Internationally, he has received the Onassis Prize for the Environment and the Stockholm Water Prize, locally he received the WA 'Citizen of the Year' Award and nationally the Clunies Ross National Science and Technology Award and the Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal. In 2006, he received ASLO's A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award and was elected as a Fellow into US National Academy of Engineering and in 2007 he became a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
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