Accepting an award, remembering a friend
John Smol receives the Martin Bergmann Medal for Excellence in Arctic Leadership and Science.
John Smol has received an Arctic research lifetime achievement award named in honour of his friend and former colleague Martin Bergmann.
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Queen's researcher John Smol has received the Martin Bergmann Medal for Excellence in Arctic Leadership and Science. Established by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society in 2012, the award is named in recognition of Mr. Bergmann's career as an Arctic researcher and director of the Polar Continental Shelf Program with Natural Resources Canada.
Mr. Bergmann was an Arctic researcher and director of the Polar Continental Shelf Program with Natural Resources Canada. Mr. Bergmann died when First Air charter flight 6560 crashed in Resolute, Nunavut on Aug. 20, 2011.
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Dr. Smol received the award for more than 30 years of research in the Arctic. Since making his first trip north in 1983, Dr. Smol has studied climate change effects on the Arctic and water contamination from mining and human activities, as well as a spectrum of other issues.
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Dr. Smol received the award at the annual Royal Canadian Geographical Society fellows카지노 게임 컬렉션 gala dinner on Nov. 18 in Ottawa. The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, presented Dr. Smol with the award.