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Professor Andy Pitman receives Office of Science and Medical Research NSW Scientist of the Year Award
16 September 2010
Professor Andy Pitman, UNSW Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC) co-director and leader of the new ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, has received the NSW Office of Science and Medical Research (OSMR) NSW Scientist of the Year 2010 Award in the Environment, Water and Climate Change Sciences category.
The NSW Scientist of the Year Awards were established in 2008 to recognise and reward the state's leading researchers for cutting edge work that generates economic, health, environmental or technological benefits for NSW.
The NSW Scientist of the Year 2010 Award is designed to engage and involve the general public as well as the NSW research community, to promote the value of science and encourage science careers.
Awards are granted on the basis of:
- Excellence and impact of research;
- Work that has been undertaken in the last five years;
- Work that addresses a significant, health, environmental or technological challenge facing NSW;
- Contribution and involvement with research sector (eg volunteerism through participation in professional societies, outreach programs, peer review, conference organisation) and;
- Work that has potential to impact on the priorities set out in the NSW State plan and the NSW Innovation Statement.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences visits CCRC
07 May 2012
A delegation from the Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment Research For Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science recently visited the CCRC/CoECSS. |
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Willem's mystery interval study awarded CCRC prize
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Willem Huiskamp’s Honours research project on the “Mystery Interval” during the last deglaciation has won the 2011 Silicon Graphics Prize for Climate Research Using High Performance Computing. |
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