8th IPWG and 5th IWSSM Joint Workshop
Bologna, 3-7 October, 2016



Best Poster Awards

For the first time in their history IPWG and IWSSM introduced a competition for the Best Posters with the aim to assign a First Prize and two Runner-up Prizes.
Eligible posters were those with an Early Career Scientist as first author, or with an Early Career Scientist as co-author who provided a substantial and demonstrable input to the contents of the poster. The Early Career Scientist should have been present at the workshop.
The Early Career Scientist definition was chosen as per EGU: "An Early Career Scientists (ECS) is an undergraduate or postgraduate (Masters/PhD) student or a scientist who has received his or her highest degree (BSc, MSc, or PhD) within the past seven years (Provided parental leave fell into that period, up to one year of parental leave time may be added per child, where appropriate)."

Award Committee

Kazumasa Aonashi JMA-MRI, Tsukuba, Japan
Ralf Bennartz Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Christopher Kidd (Chair) NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA
F. Joseph Turk NASA-JPL, Pasadena, CA, USA
Nai-Yu Wang NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, College Park, MD, USA

Prizes

1st Prize
Annakaisa von Lerber
P1.56 - Documenting microphysical processes of winter precipitation and their connection to Ze-S
A. von Lerber, D. Moisseev, D. Ori, J. Tiira, and W. Petersen
Prize: Stainless steel gauge sponsored by Vincenzo Levizzani.

Runner-up Prize
Claudine Wenhaji Ndomeni
P2.24 - An Observational Study of the Variability of East African rainfall linked to Sea Surface Temperatures and Soil Moisture
C. Wenhaji-Ndomeni, E. Cattani, A. Merino, and V. Levizzani
Prize: Quality plastic gauge sponsored by Chris Kidd.

Runner-up Prize
Jie Gong
P1.50 - Floating Frozen Particle Orientation Inferred from Global Precipitation Measurement Microwave Imager (GMI) and Compact Scanning Submillimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSSIR) Polarimetric
J. Gong, and D. L. Wu
Prize: Quality plastic gauge sponsored by Chris Kidd.

Photos

6 October, 2016. Annakaisa von Lerber receiving the 1st Prize from Chris Kidd. 6 October, 2016. Annakaisa von Lerber showing her prize. Another gauge in the international network!
6 October, 2016. Claudine Wenhaji Ndomeni receiving the Runner-up Prize from Chris Kidd. 14 October, 2016. Jie Gong receiving the Runner-up Prize from Chris Kidd.