Prix de Quervain 2024: award presentation ceremony
The Prix de Quervain 2024 is awarded to Amy R. Macfarlane for her doctoral work that serves as a base to reduce major uncertainties on sea ice modelling and to improve the quality of global climate models predictions
The rapid warming in the Arctic leads to significant loss of sea ice, which in turn effects precipitation and alters the energy dynamics of the region. The research of Amy Macfarlane focused on understanding the critical role of snow and ice in the Arctic, particularly how these elements influence the region's energy budget and contribute to global climate patterns. Given the Arctic’s remoteness, the MOSAiC expedition in 2019-20 provided a unique opportunity to gather and study in-situ data over a year.
Programme
17h00
Welcome address
Jürg Pfister, Secretary General of the Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT
17:05
Introduction and Laudatio
Naki Akçar, President of the Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH
17h20
Presentation of the awarded work «Impact of snow microstructure on the Arctic sea ice and on the global climate energy budget»
Amy R. Macfarlane, UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Northumbria University in the UK
17h50
Q&A
18h00
Aperitif
19h00
End of event
Contatto
Dr. Roger Pfister
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