Royal Astronomical Society
Congratulations! The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has announced that EISCAT is receiving a Group Achievement Award in Geophysics.
Award winner
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in 1820, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. The RAS organizes scientific meetings, publishes international research and review journals, recognizes outstanding achievements by the award of medals and prizes, maintains an extensive library, supports education through grants and outreach activities and represents UK astronomy nationally and internationally. Its more than 3900 members (Fellows), a third based overseas, include scientific researchers in universities, observatories and laboratories as well as historians of astronomy and others.
The announcement was publicized in January 2016 at the RAS website and it will be presented at the National Astronomy Meeting in Nottingham University, U.K. in late June. As mentioned in their publication A&G;, Vol. 57, February 2016, the award was given to the EISCAT with the motivation: