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Lonnie G. Thompson

FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE AWARD

Climate Change

14th Edition

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category has gone in this fourteenth edition to the U.S. glaciologists Ellen Mosley-Thompson and Lonnie Thompson, “for advancing the knowledge and understanding of past and current climate change through persistent, dedicated ice‐core research in the vanishing high mountain glaciers of the tropics and mid latitudes,” said the committee in its citation.