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