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We have received many applications for 2017 Climate Travel Award for Young Scientists. Many applicants have an outstanding record of academic achievements in climate related research. The award selection committee is highly impressed with the quality of our applicants.
As Editor-in-Chief of Climate, it is my pleasure to announce that the winner of the 2017 Climate Travel Awardfor Young Scientists is Mr. Spyridon Paparrizos. Mr. Paparrizos is a Ph.D. candidate in the Chair of Environmental Meteorology under Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Faculty of Environmental and Natural Recourses, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany. On behalf of Climate, Mr. Paparrizos will be supported with 800 Swiss Francs towards travel expenses to attend the 17th European Meteorological Society Annual meeting and the 12th European Conference on Applied Climatology to be held in Dublin, Ireland during 4–8 September 2017.
Mr. Paparrizos’s main research fields are environmental science, geographic information systems (GIS), spatial and applied hydrometeorology, hydrology, erosion, forest and agricultural climatology. His current research focuses on climatological data analysis and model applications on climate change conditions using GIS and statistical analysis methods, which is highly interdisciplinary. During his PhD dissertation research, he is developing the approaches for the assessment and the impact of climate and the climate change factors on the hydrological regime in various regions in Greece. Mr. Paparrizos has published 13 journal articles since 2014, he first authored 10 of them. In addition, three of them have already been cited several times.
Please join me in congratulating Mr. Paparrizos on his 2017 Climate Travel Award.
Prof. Dr. Yang Zhang Editor-in-Chief of Climate
Climate 2017 Travel Award
Past Winners
Year:
Winner
Lanzhou University
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel
Chairman
University of Colorado Boulder
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Prof. Dr. Chiara Bertolin
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dr. Ying Ouyang
USDA Forest Service
Winner
Elena Ceballos
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Award Committee
Dr. Timothy G. F. Kittel
Chairman
University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Nir Y Krakauer
Prof. Dr. Rui A. P. Perdigão
Meteoceanics Institute for Complex System Science
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Winner
Pavani Misra
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Award Committee
Dr. Steven McNulty
Chairman
USDA Forest Service
Dr. Forrest M. Hoffman
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Prof. Salvatore Magazu'
Unversity of Messina
Dr. Ying Ouyang
USDA Forest Service
Winner
Agostino Niyonkuru Meroni
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Platon Patlakas
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
