UW-Madison Limnologist Stephen Carpenter will receive $150,000 and a crystal sculpture from the King of Sweden in recognition of winning the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize.
The prize, which will be presented in August, recognizes ""outstanding achievement in water-related activities."" It specifically honors individuals or groups whose work aids the ""conservation and protection of water resources and to improved health of the planet's inhabitants and ecosystem,"" according to the Stockholm International Water Institute website.
A professor of limnology and zoology at UW-Madison, Carpenter was recognized for his research of how people's actions affect lake ecosystems. He is recognized as one of the world's most influential ecological environmental scientists.
Carpenter, former president of the Ecological Society of America and the current director of the UW-Madison Center for Limnology, has written five books and nearly 300 scientific papers on various ecological topics.
