Ten scientists have been awarded the 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; among them Ben Marzeion who is leading a new glacier modeling intercomparison study, together with Regine Hock.
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 CliC’s Director Jenny Baeseman, Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø (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).