EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award

The Canadian glaciologist Gwenn Flowers has won the prestigious Outstanding Young Scientist Award for outstanding contributions to our understanding of the dynamics of the terrestrial cryosphere: glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets.

The Outstanding Young Scientist Award recognizes scientific achievements in any field of the Geosciences, made by a scientist who is under the age of 35 on 31 December of the year of the General Assembly .

Gwenn Flowers is Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Glaciology, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

Resumé

Gwenn Flowers is a glaciologist with interests in glacier and ice-sheet dynamics, the hydrology of glacierized systems and the relationship of these systems to climate. More broadly, she is interested in the glaciological elements of watershed hydrology, natural hazards and climate change.  

More information:
http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/awards/medallists/_2006/outstanding_young_scientist_award_flowers.html