INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS
UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE
NEWS RELEASE
5 November 2014
Ten scientists have been awarded today Early Career Scientist Awards of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) for their outstanding research in Earth and space sciences and for their international research cooperation:
Ruiqiang Ding (China), Meteorology
Andreas Fichtner (Switzerland), Seismology
Gregory Foltz (USA), Oceanography
Matthias Huss (Switzerland), Glaciology
Markus Hrachowitz (The Netherlands), Hydrology
Ben Kravitz (USA), Atmospheric Sciences
Ben Marzeion (Austria), Climatology
Ilona Riipinen (Sweden), Meteorology
Johanna Salminen (Finland), Paleomagnetism
Futoshi Takahashi (Japan), Geomagnetism
IUGG Early Career Scientist Awards will be presented at the 26th IUGG General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic, 22 June – 2 July 2015 during an Honor ceremony. The awardees will give a talk at the U11 Early Career Scientists Symposium on Saturday, 27 June 2015. All Assembly delegates are welcome to attend the symposium.
International jury
The Award Committee was chaired by Jenny Baeseman, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromso (Norway). The Members of the Committee were Salvatore Grimaldi, Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Italy), Thorne Lay, University of California, Santa Cruz (USA), Satheesh Shenoi, Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services, Hyderabad (India), Laszlo Szarka, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary), and John Turner, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge (UK).
For information: Alik Ismail-Zadeh, IUGG Secretary General