SECTION AWARDS AND LECTURES
Cryosphere Early Career Award
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2023 RECIPIENT
McKenzie Skiles
Dr. S. McKenzie Skiles has focused on the best approaches for measuring, modeling, and mitigating the impacts of light-absorbing particles (dust, black carbon, or microbial growth) on snow and ice. Her research has demonstrated that in southern Color...
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2022 RECIPIENT
Lucas Zoet
Lucas (Luke) Zoet conducts innovative laboratory experiments that are targeted toward developing the quantitative understanding of basal mechanical interactions that is essential for process-based descriptions of glacier behavior. He delves deeply in...
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2021 RECIPIENT
Brooke Medley
2020 RECIPIENT
Helene L Seroussi
2019 RECIPIENT
Natalya A Gomez

Natalya Gomez’s research is a wonderful example of the power of interdisciplinary thinking in deepening our understanding of the Earth’s climate system. Her earliest work as a graduate student in Toronto and at Harvard focused on sea l...

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2018 RECIPIENT
Ludovic Brucker
2017 RECIPIENT
Jan Lenaerts

Advances in computer modeling of cryospheric and polar systems are enabling our field to confidently predict past, present, and future conditions, thereby informing scientific studies, policy, and future planning. Jan Lenaerts’s meticulous, ...

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2016 RECIPIENT
John Drysdale Paden

A key to understanding the history, structure, and evolution of ice sheets is being able to observe the geometry and characteristics of the ice/bed interface, as well as the internal structure of the ice. John Paden’s pioneering efforts led ...

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