A new international honor and two others that recognize excellence in science-related reporting are among several awards recently distributed to six recipients by the American Geophysical Union.
AGU chose Uppugunduri Aswathanarayana as the recipient of its newest decoration, the Award for International Research Cooperation. Aswathanarayana, the honorary director of the Mahadevan International Centre for Water Resources Management in Hyderabad, India, was selected “for serving science and society in less developed countries by training geoscience personnel and developing geoscience infrastructure to promote self-reliance in these countries.”
Kenneth R. Weiss, Usha Lee McFarling, and Betsy Mason won AGU’s 2007 journalism awards, whose focus this year was on reporting about natural hazards and human impact on the environment. Weiss and McFarling received the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism–Features for their series “Altered Oceans,” published in the Los Angeles Times. The award selection committee said the series “is...
