Media Advisory/Invitation: Renowned Canadian Arctic Scientist to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
OTTAWA, Dec. 12, 2018 /CNW/ - The W. Garfield Weston Foundation will announce the recipient of its annual Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa on December 12, 2018 during ArcticNet's 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting - the largest annual Arctic research gathering in Canada.
The recipient will receive a $100,000 Prize for dedicating more than 30 years to discovering, measuring and assessing how pollutants from industrialized areas of the world travel thousands of kilometers north to settle in the Arctic.
The W. Garfield Weston Foundation created the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research in 2011 to honour leading Canadian researchers who have made significant contributions to shaping our thinking and understanding of the North. Over the past seven years, the Foundation has committed more than $30 million to Northern natural science research and is the largest private Canadian funder of scientific research in Canada's North.
Media are invited to attend this event.
WHAT: | Presentation of The Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Northern Research |
WHO: | Opportunity to interview the recipient of this year's $100,000 Prize, as well as Geordie Dalglish, Director, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation |
DATE: | Wednesday, December 12, 2018 |
TIME: | Award presentation will start at 9:30 a.m. EST |
WHERE: | Shaw Centre, 55 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 9J2 |
RSVP: | Jordana Wolch, 416-969-2666, [email protected] |
SOURCE The W. Garfield Weston Foundation
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