Sustainability Live is the UK’s largest exhibition for excellence and innovation in environment, water, energy and land. The Environmental Science Student Awards Initiative sponsored by Adventus. This was a new award for 2009 and gives students the opportunity to be rewarded for their innovative thinking and creative approach to long standing issues.

There were 2 overall winners of the Environmental Science Students Award:

Elizabeth Padilla-Crespo of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, for her work on "Application of an Oligo-nucleotide Microarray for Reductive Dechlorination Biomarker Identification and Process Monitoring"

And secondly, Behnaz Razavi of the University of California in Irvine, for her work on "Free-Radical-Induced Oxidative and Reductive Degradation of Fibrate Pharmaceuticals: Kinetic Studies and Degradation Mechanisms".

The presentations were judged by representatives of Adventus and the Conference Scientific Advisory Board - on the criterion of originality, organization, research techniques and overall quality of work.