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Awards 2010

Awardees 2008:

	Vladimir Kotlyakov - awarded President's Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Antarctic Science. SCAR citation and Vladimir's response. The photograph shows Vladimir after receiving his medal from SCAR President Chris Rapley (right).
	Angelika Brandt - awarded SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research. SCAR citation and Angelika's response. The photograph shows Angelika Brandt with SCAR President Chris Rapley (right) and SCAR Executive Director Colin Summerhayes (left).
	Claude Lorius - awarded SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination. SCAR citation and Claude's response. The photograph shows Roland Schlich receiving the medal on behalf of Claude Lorius; the two men were the first to winter over on the polar plateau, which they did in the Charcot Station from January 1957 to January 1958 during the IGY.

Awardees 2006:

Peter Barrett - awarded President's Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Antarctic Science. SCAR citation and Peter Barrett's response

Paul Mayewski - awarded SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research. SCAR citation and Paul Mayewski's response

David Walton - awarded SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination. SCAR citation and David Walton's response

The photograph shows Professor Jörn Thiede with the three awardees for 2006 (left to right: Jörn Thiede, Paul Mayewski, Peter Barrett, David Walton).

Young Scientists' Awards

During the Open Science Conference in St Petersburg (8-11 July 2008), the following young scientists won awards for their oral or poster presentation:

Hauke Flores, for oral paper:- The Role of the Antarctic Sea Ice Habitat for Sympagic and Pelagic Macrofauna. Collected on her behalf.
Anouk Piquet, for oral paper:- Characterization of Prokaryotic and Micro-Eukaryotic Communities from Two Arctic Glacial Fjords (Spitsbergen).	no photo available
Samuel Morin, for oral paper:- Isotopic Constraints on the Budget of Atmospheric Nitrate in the Arctic.
Olga Semenova, for oral paper:- Modelling of Runoff Formation Processes for Arctic Rivers.	no photo available
Helen Johnson, for oral paper:- The Salinity, Heat and Buoyancy Budgets of a Coastal Current in a Marginal Sea.	no photo available
Jan Strugnell, for oral paper:- Evidence for Population Genetic Structure in Benthic Antarctic Octopuses from Microsatellites, but not from Mitochondrial DNA. Award collected on Jan's behalf by Katrin Linse, from BAS.
Maria Pinones Valenzuela, for poster:- Simulations of Lagrangian Particles on the Western Antarctic Peninsula: The Effect of Circulation Dynamics.
Lubov Shmakova, for poster:- Long-Term Survival of Free-Living Soil Protozoa in Eastern Arctic Permafrost.
Helen Campbell, for poster (prepared with Ursula Ryan and Shulamit Gordon):- The SCAR Data and Information Strategy. Award collected on Helen's behalf by Huw Griffiths, from BAS.
Anton Van de Putte, for poster:- The Lanternfish Electrona Antarctica in the Southern Ocean: An Energetic and Seasonal Perspective.