NIERSC was awarded with the prestigious EU Descartes Prize for the project «Climate and Environmental Changes in the Arctic – CECA» in 2005. NIERSC became a Descartes Prize Laureate as a member of the international consortium consisting of Nansen Center in Bergen, Norway (Prof. Ola M. Johannessen – project leader and coordinator, and Lasse H. Pettersson – project deputy leader), Max–Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany (Prof. Lennart Bengtsson), and St. Petersburg Nansen Centre (Dr. Leonid P. Bobylev). The prize award money (200,000 Euro) is used at the Nansen Centre in St. Petersburg in a three–year program for further studies of the Arctic climate, supporting young Russian scientists and PhD students.
More information
More information about CECA project can be found at the official Descartes Prize website where the Descartes brochure 2005 with the highlights of awarded projects can be downloaded.
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The Descartes Prizes Award Ceremony 2005. |
The Descartes Prize certificate
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