Philippe Van Cappellen Awarded the 2015 Science Innovation Award

Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Philippe Van Cappellen, Water Institute Member, Professor in Earth and Environmental Sciences, and CERC Chair in Ecohydrology, has been selected to will receive the 2015 Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry. This award is bestowed to scientists who have recently made a particularly important and innovative breakthrough in geochemistry. The 2015 award is named after Werner Stumm, who was Philippe's postdoctoral advisor at the Swiss Institute for Aquatic Sciences in the 1990s. 
The award consists of an engraved medal, an honorarium (1000 Euros), a certificate and inclusion as a Geochemical Fellow. Philippe will receive the award at the Goldschmidt meeting in Prague next August and he has donated the 1000 Euros back to the EAG in support of their science outreach activities. Congratulations Philippe!