The Winter edition of CRDC's quarterly magazine, Spotlight, focus on the people within the Australian cotton industry: our number one asset. In this In this edition meet some of the people making great strides for our industry - like Dr Alison McCarthy a young researcher developing an integrated image system for soil-water and nitrogen levels in cotton and the winner of the Science and Innovation for Young People in Agriculture Awards; or like Dr Sharon Downes a scientist with CSIRO Ecosystems Sciences at ACRI and cotton's next participant in the Australian Rural Leadership Program.