Hon Christine Sharp asks about research contracts between the Water Corporation and UWA's Centre for Water Research since 2001. Hon Kim Chance provides a list of research topics and their commercial value, clarifying that contracts are with the Centre, not individual researchers.

AnsweredQoN 19Legislative Council
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30 March 2005

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(1) Will the minister please supply a list of research contracts, specifying the research topic, between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, and individual academics employed at the same centre, that are current or have been current since 2001? (2) Will the minister also provide the approximate commercial value of each of those listed above? Hon KIM CHANCE

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I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Research contracts (a) Water Corporation scholarship - scales controlling the interaction between primary producers and nitrogen in a shallow coastal ecosystem in Western Australia; (b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers. (2) (a) $40 000 (b) $34 000 (c) $60 000 (d) $77 000
(2) Will the minister also provide the approximate commercial value of each of those listed above? Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Research contracts (a) Water Corporation scholarship - scales controlling the interaction between primary producers and nitrogen in a shallow coastal ecosystem in Western Australia; (b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers. (2) (a) $40 000 (b) $34 000 (c) $60 000 (d) $77 000
Hon KIM CHANCE replied: I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Research contracts (a) Water Corporation scholarship - scales controlling the interaction between primary producers and nitrogen in a shallow coastal ecosystem in Western Australia; (b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers. (2) (a) $40 000 (b) $34 000 (c) $60 000 (d) $77 000
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. (1) Research contracts (a) Water Corporation scholarship - scales controlling the interaction between primary producers and nitrogen in a shallow coastal ecosystem in Western Australia; (b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers. (2) (a) $40 000 (b) $34 000 (c) $60 000 (d) $77 000
(1) Research contracts (a) Water Corporation scholarship - scales controlling the interaction between primary producers and nitrogen in a shallow coastal ecosystem in Western Australia; (b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers. (2) (a) $40 000 (b) $34 000 (c) $60 000 (d) $77 000
(b) hydrodynamic model of Mundaring catchment; (c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers.
(c) reservoir mixing model; and (d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers.
(d) study of algal blooms in Harvey Dam. All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers.
All contracts are between the Water Corporation and the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research, not individual researchers.

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