IACS Early Career Scientist Award
The call for nominations is now open with a deadline on 13 January 2025. The 2024 awardees will be recognized at the BACO25 Joint Assembly in Busan, South Korea in July 2025.
Nomination guidelines
The award is given for a scientific paper. Papers must be focused on a cryospheric topic represented by any of the current IACS divisions. The nominee must be an early-career scientist, defined as a person who is currently enrolled in a PhD/MSc program or (if no longer a PhD/MSc student) whose highest academic degree (PhD, MSc) was obtained no longer than two years before the submission deadline. Papers published in international peer-reviewed journals with a doi (printed or online) between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2024 will be considered in this call. Papers published in ‘Discussions’ will not be considered.
Please submit nominations and pdfs of nominated papers through the nomination form. Any person, except the nominee and members of the evaluation committee, can submit a nomination. Incomplete nomination packages will not be considered.
Nominated papers should present novel ideas, concepts, theories, or methods. Papers presenting results using existing established methods, or papers producing evidence to support an existing theory, or papers presenting new data or observations without presenting novel ideas/concepts/theories or methods will be judged less favorably. The type of journal or extent of media attention will not be considered in the evaluation. More information on the evaluation criteria is given on the nomination form.
Previous recipients
2023 (Paper published 2021-2022)
Veronica Tollenaar, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium
Yixi Zheng, University of East Anglia, UK
2021 (Paper published 2019-2020)
Dr David Bigelow, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dr Giulia Mazzotti, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland
2019 (Paper published 2017-2018)
Dr Doug Brinkerhoff, University of Montana, USA
Dr Denis Felikson, NASA Goddard Space Center, USA
2017 (Paper published 2015-2016)
Dr Thorben Dunse, University of Oslo, Norway
Dr Rachel Tilling, University College London, U.K.
2015
Dr Mathieu Morlighem, University of California, Irvine