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SAEON/SAPRI researcher wins international award for groundbreaking Antarctic sea ice study
South African Environmental Observation NetworkRef: https://www.saeon.ac.za/2025/08/07/saeon-sapri-researcher-wins-international-award-for-groundbreaking-antarctic-sea-ice-study/?utm_source=rss&
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Collected on 5 July 2026
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What this means
This is a news/media-style article on the South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) website about an NRF-SAEON/SAPRI early career researcher, Riesna R. Audh, winning an international award. It reports that she received the IAPSO Eugene La Fond Medal at the IAPSO-sponsored BACO-25 (Busan, South Korea) held 21–25 July 2025 for outstanding research presented there. The article describes her PhD work on previously under-sampled winter sea ice in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone and states that her study produced the first-ever biogeochemical dataset for growing young/first-year sea ice in the region. It also lists supporting funding sources and provides a citation and DOI for the related published research.
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Reference
https://www.saeon.ac.za/2025/08/07/saeon-sapri-researcher-wins-international-award-for-groundbreaking-antarctic-sea-ice-study/?utm_source=rss&
Key Takeaways
- Award: IAPSO Eugene La Fond Medal
- Recipient: Riesna R. Audh (NRF-SAEON/SAPRI; hosted by the Egagasini Node)
- Event: Busan IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO 2025 Joint Assembly (BACO-25)
- Event dates: 21–25 July 2025
- Location: Busan, Republic of Korea
- Research focus: winter sea ice in the Atlantic sector of the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (AMIZ)
- Claim: first-ever biogeochemical dataset for growing young and first-year sea ice in the region
- Study context: South African-led Southern oCean seAsonaL Experiment winter cruise in 2019
- Funding: NRF South African National Antarctic Program grant nos. 118745 and 129232
- Additional funding: EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement no. 101003826 via project CRiceS
- Attendance funding: NRF-SAEON/SAPRI
- Publication cited: Audh et al., 2023, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 128(12), e2023JC019925; DOI 10.1029/2023JC019925
- South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON)
- South African Polar Research Infrastructure (SAPRI)
- National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF)
- Egagasini Node (SAEON)
- IAPSO (International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans)
- IAPSO Eugene La Fond Medal
- IAMAS-IACS-IAPSO 2025 Joint Assembly (BACO-25)
- European Union (EU)
- Horizon 2020
- CRiceS (Climate Relevant interactions and feedbacks: the key role of sea ice and Snow in the polar and global climate system)
- Southern oCean seAsonaL Experiment (SOASE) winter cruise (2019)
- Riesna R. Audh
- S.E. Fawcett
- S. Johnson
- T. Rampai
- M. Vichi
Dates
Closing Date
25 July 2025