Rules of the contest
Each nomination must be submitted by two persons, at least one of whom does not belong to the same laboratory as the person proposed. The assessment of the files is entrusted to the Association Council (CA), assisted if necessary by external stakeholders. The final decision is voted on by the CA. The selection criteria include the candidate’s national and international scientific outreach and the services provided to AFEQ-CNF INQUA or other international associations working for the Quaternary.
The nomination file includes a letter of justification signed by the two persons who sponsor the candidate, a curriculum vitae, a list of main publications and, possibly, letters of support from Quaternary specialists, members or not of the AFEQ-CNF INQUA. The file must not exceed 5 pages.
The persons proposing the candidate must ensure prior consent for participation in the competition and the Q conference during which the medal will eventually be awarded to him. Applications should be sent in digital format to the secretary of the association. A file can be presented several times in case of failure.
The medal is awarded by the president of the association or failing that by another member of the CA at a “Q” conference. The laureate makes a presentation of his work on this occasion. The announcement of the laureate, accompanied by a summary of their curriculum vitae and a list of the main publications, is published on the Association’s website.
The second Henriette Alimen medal will be awarded in March 2021 during the Quaternary colloquium Q13 in Strasbourg. The deadline for submitting applications is set for December 10, 2021.
Applications must be sent in digital format (pdf) to
Valentina Villa, secretary of AFEQ – CNF INQUA
valentina.villa@cepam.cnrs.fr
Antarctica and Greenland from this model both participate in the ISMIP6 experiments for the 6th IPCC Synthesis Report and will be used in the IPSL and Météo France models.
In recent years, she has been strongly involved in the modeling of geophysical data in order to select the site of the future European drilling aiming to obtain an ice core more than 1.5 million years old (eg Passalacqua et al., 2017; Cavitte et al., 2018).
Her presence for 6 years on the Council of the International Glaciological Society, her election to Section 37 of the National Council of Universities (2012-2015) and recently as Vice-President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research in charge of science (2018-) testify to her national and international influence.
References
Passalacqua, O., Ritz, C., Parrenin, F., Urbini, S., and Frezzotti, M.: Geothermal flux and basal melt rate in the Dome C region inferred from radar reflectivity and heat modelling, The Cryosphere, 11, 2231-2246, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-2231-2017, 2017.
Quiquet, A., Ritz, C., Punge, H. J., and Salas y Mélia, D.: Greenland ice sheet contribution to sea level rise during the last interglacial period: a modelling study driven and constrained by ice core data, Clim. Past, 9, 353-366, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-353-2013, 2013.
Ritz, C., Rommelaere, V. and Dumas, C.: Modeling the evolution of Antarctic ice sheet over the last 420 000 years: implications for altitude changes in the Vostok region. J. Geophys. Res. 106, (D23), 31, 943-31, 964, 2001.
Ritz C., Edwards T.L., Durand G., Payne A.J., Peyaud V. and Hindmarsh R.C.A. Potential sea-level rise from Antarctic ice-sheet instability constrained by observations Nature 528, 115–118 doi:10.1038/nature16147, 2015.