Two technologies supported by grants from NOAA's invasive species program receive Wall Street Journal "Global Technology Innovation Awards."

The Wall Street Journal announced in November the results of its first Global Technology Innovation Awards competition. The awards recognize technological breakthroughs by individuals, companies and organizations around the world in a wide range of areas, including
medicine, software, security, and transportation. The judges selected a winner and runners-up in each of the 12 industry categories from 585 applications from around the world.

Two of the four winners in the "Environmental" category received grants to develop their technologies from NOAA's invasive species program.

The first place winner, Ferrate Technologies LLC, won for its work to develop ferrate-based wastewater and industrial effluence treatment without toxic byproducts. This group received a 2004 grant from NOAA through the Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program to adapt this technology to ballast water treatment.

One of the runners-up, Nutech-O3, won for its ozone-based treatment to remove aquatic invasive species from ballast water. Nutech-O3 and its academic partners have received several grant awards over the past three years from the Ballast Water Technology Demonstration Program and the NOAA Sea Grant Aquatic Invasive Species Research Program to adapt this technology to ballast water treatment.

"Through these awards, The Wall Street Journal seeks to recognize innovation--and each of these winners embodies the creative thinking that enabled them to rise the top of their respective industries," said Karen Elliott House, publisher, The Wall Street Journal, and senior vice president, Dow Jones & Company. "We also believe that in today's business environment, it has never been more important to discover and nurture new ideas."

More information on the Global Technology Innovation Award program can be found at: http://www.dowjones.com/innovation/index.html

See the original story, printed in North Carolina Sea Grant's Coastwatch Magazine.

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