Press releases 2010

June

• Fast-tracking Swedish Environmental Researchers into International Networks – a new secretariat for global environmental and natural resource issues established at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

  2010-06-15 In cooperation with several Swedish funders of scientific research, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is establishing a new secretariat – the Swedish Secretariat for Environmental Earth System Sciences (SSEESS) – in order to facilitate Swedish researchers’ participation and leadership in international research programmes about sustainable development.

April

• Press invitation to the Crafoord Days 2010: Meet the legendary Walter Munk

  2010-04-26 Welcome to meet “the father of oceanography”, Walter Munk, who comes to Sweden to receive the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences, “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics” . The Crafoord Days 2010 begin in Stockholm and end in Lund.

• Staffan Normark elected new Permanent Secretary of the Academy

  2010-04-15 On 14 April the Academy decided to appoint Professor Staffan Normark as new Permanent Secretary from 1 July 2010. He will succeed Professor Gunnar Öquist who has held the position since 2003.

January

• Statement on wind power

  2010-01-27 The Royal Swedish Academy’s Energy Committee expects a massive expansion of wind power in the decades ahead. Globally, it looks set to rise from 260 TWh of electricity in 2008 to an estimated 5,000 TWh in 2050. This represents an annual average increase of 8%.

• The Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2010

  2010-01-21 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2010 to Walter Munk, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics”.