Welcome to the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Digital Ceremony and Symposium where we will honor the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize laureates Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops.
Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops receive the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for their groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models based on tree ecophysiology, and further
Putting science into practice is a joint ambition of the new members of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize Selection Committee. The forest sector has a key role in addressing the global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss or increased demand of materials substituting fossil raw materials.
The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.
Mikael Hannus vill sprida evenemangen över hela året och hitta nya målgrupper i både samhälle och akademi. Han hyser stor respekt för de traditioner som har skapats sedan det första Marcus Wallenbergpriset delades ut 1981, men är samtidigt öppen för förändringar som kan förena vetenskap och skogsindustri i helt nya sammanhang.
Mikael Hannus wants to spread the events over the whole year and identify new target groups in both society and academia. He has great respect for the traditions that have been established since the first Marcus Wallenberg Prize was awarded in 1981, but is at the same time open to changes that are able to unite science and the forest industry in completely new contexts.
Open access was important to the researchers developing the 3PG model, adopted worldwide by both science and forestry. The simple and powerful tool to predict forest growth is awarded the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize.
under sina år som vetenskaplig sekreterare för Marcus Wallenbergpriset har Kaj Rosén betonat hur viktigt det är med en hög nivå på forskningen . "Så länge som nomineringarna vilar på seriös och högkvalitativ forskning vågar vi belöna vetenskapliga genombrott som ännu inte börjat tillämpas. Vi höjer ribban hela tiden", säger Kaj Rosén.
Kaj Rosén has emphasized the importance of high scientific standards during his years as Executive Secretary for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize. “As long as the nominations were based on serious research, we had the courage to reward scientific breakthroughs that had not yet been applied. We were constantly raising the bar”, Kaj Rosén says.
Årets Marcus Wallenbergspris skulle enligt planerna ha delats ut i Stockholm i oktober 2020. Marcus Wallenbergstiftelsens styrelse har dock beslutat att flytta fram prisutdelningen ett år på grund av en ökande osäkerhet kring reserekommendationer till följd av covid-19-pandemin.
The Prize event was planned for October 2020. The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation has however decided to postpone the ceremony and symposium due to the COVID-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty regarding travelling recommendations.
Tre forskare delar på Marcus Wallenbergpriset 2020 för en modell, 3PG, som förutsäger skogstillväxt i ett föränderligt klimat. Satellitbilder kan skala upp modellen för att visa hur nya miljöförhållanden påverkar världens skogar.
Joseph J Landsberg, Richard H Waring and Nicholas C Coops, share the 2020 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for a model to predict forest growth in a changing climate. Satellite imagery offers the possibility to scale up the model to show how different environmental conditions affect the world's forests.
The purpose of the Prize is to recognize, encourage and stimulate pathbreaking scientific achievements which contribute significantly to broadening knowledge and to technical development within the fields of importance to forestry and forest industries.
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