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Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH
Prix de Quervain 2024: How the microstructure of snow in the Arctic influences sea ice and the global climate
Amy R. Macfarlane will be awarded the Prix de Quervain 2024 for her excellent and innovative doctoral dissertation at the ETH Zurich and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF. Her research serves as a base to reduce major uncertainties on sea ice modelling and to improve the quality of global climate models predictions. For this, she applied a wide variety of instruments to measure the microstructure of snow in high resolution directly in the Arctic for the first time.
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Call for nominations: Prix de Quervain 2026 for Polar Research
The Prix de Quervain 2026 will be awarded for outstanding research conducted in, or originat-ing from, the two polar regions, across all scientific disciplines.
Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH
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Prix de Quervain awarded to two early career researchers
To Paraskevi Georgagaki and Simon Schneider for their PhDs on ice crystals in clouds and in high altitude medicine respectively. The award ceremony is at the Swiss Polar Day on 5 September
Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research SCPH
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Swiss researcher becomes Vice-President of the International Arctic Science Committee IASC
Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, a long-standing member of the Swiss Commission for Polar and High Altitude Research (SCPH) and professor at the University of Zurich, elected IASC Vice-President