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For Immediate Release December 11, 2007
ISWS Scientists share in 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
will be awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) on December 10 in Oslo,
Norway. The Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS) is
proud to announce that two of its atmospheric research scientists Kenneth
Kunkel and Stanley Changnon have participated in the activities of the IPCC and
thereby share in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
They
share this honor with their IPCC colleagues at the University of Illinois
(http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/department/news.html
and http://www.las.uiuc.edu/news/2007fall/07oct_peaceprize.html)
and around the world. The scientists served as authors, reviewers, or
contributors to a series of IPCC reports assessing the state of science and
impacts of global climate change. Kunkel and Changnon, who were invited to make
these major contributions to these now famous scientific documents, are
gratified to be among scientists honored by the Nobel Prize.
The IPCC represents more
than 180 governments and operates under the auspices of the U.N. Environment
Programme and the World Meteorological Organization.
Changnon,
hired 55 years ago as the first ISWS climatologist, takes great pride that he
and Kunkel were invited to contribute to such an important scientific document,
and notes this reflects on the strength of the ISWS atmospheric sciences
program
Both scientists are also
adjunct professors at the University
of Illinois: Kunkel in the
Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Changnon in the Department of Geography.
Kunkel is Acting Chief of the ISWS, and Changnon is ISWS Chief Emeritus.
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