FINAL AWARD EVALUATION

YOUNG RESEARCHER INNOVATION AWARD ON CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE AND MOUNTAIN AREAS

RESULTS OF THE FINAL EVALUATION

The components of the group of editors of each thematic areas selected the manuscripts that gathered the highest quality for their participation in the AWARD and their publication. After being reviewed by pairs of anonymous referees and improving the aspects indicated by them, the editors submitted the manuscripts to the members of the Scientific Committee. 15 researchers carried out the evaluation and qualified the works according to the criteria of the call. In strict monitoring of the quantitative results of this evaluation, the following awards have been granted:

FINAL RESULTS

A) CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION (SHARED)

- Michaela Kňažková, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, for the contribution to the manuscript “EFFECT OF HYALOCLASTITE BRECCIA BOULDERS ON MESOSCALE PERIGLACIAL-AEOLIAN LANDSYSTEM IN SEMI-ARID ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT, JAMES ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA”.

- Carla Tapia Baldis. IANIGLA (Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales), CCT Conicet, Av. Ruiz Leal s/n. Parque Gral. San Martín. CP: 5500. CC: 330, Mendoza, Argentina, for the contribution to the manuscript “PERMAFROST MODEL IN COARSE-BLOCKY DEPOSITS FOR THE DRY ANDES, ARGENTINA (28°-33° S)”.

SECOND AWARD

- Jesús Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13.034, 50.080-Zaragoza, Spain, for the contribution to the manuscript “GENERATION OF DAILY HIGH-SPATIAL RESOLUTION SNOW DEPTH MAPS FROM IN-SITU MEASUREMENT AND TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHS”.

THIRD AWARD

- Alfonso Pisabarro, Department of Geography, University of Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain for the contribution to the manuscript “SNOW COVER AS A MORPHOGENIC AGENT DETERMINING GROUND CLIMATE, LANDFORMS AND RUNOFF IN THE VALDECEBOLLAS MASSIF, CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS”.

B) MOUNTAIN AREAS

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION

- Catarina Romão Sequeira, Forest Geography, Policy and Socioeconomics Research Group, Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, for the contribution to the manuscript “ LANDSCAPE-BASED FIRE SCENARIOS AND FIRE TYPES IN THE AYLLÓN MASSIF (CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGE, SPAIN), 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES”.

 

 

EDITORS:

Editors of Cryosphere Science: David Palacios (Complutense University of Madrid), José M. García-Ruiz (CSIC), Marc Oliva (University of Barcelona), José María Fernández-Fernández (Complutense University of Madrid) and Editors of Research on Mountain Areas: Nuria Andrés (Complutense University of Madrid), Amelia Gómez-Villar (University of Leon), Luis Miguel Tanarro (Complutense University of Madrid), Jesús Ruiz-Fernández (University of Oviedo).

EVALUATING COMMITTEE:

João Azevedo, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal, jazevedo@ipb.pt

Leopoldo Garcia-Sancho, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, sancholg@farm.ucm.es

Jan Kalvoda,Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, jan.kalvoda@natur.cuni.cz

Andreas Kellerer-Pirklbauer, University of Graz, Austria, andreas.kellerer@uni-graz.at

Eric Leonard, Colorado College. eleonard@coloradocollege.edu

Magali Delmas, University of Perpignan, France, magali.delmas@univ-perp.fr

Norikazu Matsuoka, University of Tsukuba, Japan, matsuoka@geoenv.tsukuba.ac.jp

Jose Luis Peña-Monne, Zaragoza University, Spain, jlpena@unizar.es

Jesús Ruiz Fernández, Oviedo University, ruizjesus@uniovi.es

Esteban Sagredo, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile. esagredo@uc.cl

Dylan Ward, University of Cinncinati, USA, warddy@ucmail.uc.edu

Jose Juan Sanjosé-Blasco , University of Extremadura, Spain, jjblasco@unex.es

Javier Santos González, University of León, Spain, jsango@unileon.es

Stefan Winkler, University of Würzburg, Germany. stefan.winkler@uni-wuerzburg.de

Clayton Whitesides, Coastal Carolina University, USA, cwhitesid@coastal.edu

LAST NEWS

YOUNG RESEARCHER INNOVATION AWARD ON CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE AND MOUNTAIN AREAS

The Complutense University of Madrid, through its research group of PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY IN HIGH MOUNTAINS (GFAM; https://www.ucm.es/gfam/), and Guadarrama Monitoring Network (GUMNET; www.ucm.es/gumnet/) in collaboration with the scientific journal: Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica / Geographical Research Letters (https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cig), opens a call for the "Young Researcher Innovation Award in Cryosphere Science and Mountain Areas".

Traditionally, the academia environment imposes a protocol on the initiation of young researchers, according to the need of using already consolidated approaches within accepted ideas implemented by their senior advisers. This established model ensures their professional consolidation, but it undoubtedly limits and slows down the characteristic creativity of the youth. In fact, some of the most significant scientific advances have been made by young researchers, who break preconceived ideas and open up new horizons, often faced with the opposition of consolidated researchers.

With the purpose of promoting research in mountain areas and cryospheric processes, the Complutense University of Madrid and its GFAM research group, organizes an Award for young researchers working on those topics. Researchers must present an original unpublished work in a research article format, with a strong innovative approach, including new methods and breakthrough ideas that open new research perspectives.

A scientific committee will make a first selection of the works. Those that have been selected will be evaluated by two external reviewers with demonstrated experience in their specific fields. The scientific committee will propose the definitive selection of the awardees and of the papers deserving publication according to the view of the external evaluation. The selected and awarded works will be published in two Special Issues of the journal Cuadernos de Investigación Geográfica / Geographical Research Letters, one including works related to the Cryosphere Science and the other focusing on mountain areas in general.

PARTICIPANTS

 Young researchers in the process of presenting their PhD thesis or who have defended it not before January 1, 2014 are encouraged to participate. The papers may be submitted by several authors, but only the first author will participate in the competition. The other authors must sign a form confirming that the first author has led the research work. Each participant must also propose a senior researcher within their study area who will be an external evaluator for other works.

            TOPICS

 Research topics should be encompassed in one of the two main fields:

a) Cryosphere Science (glaciology, permafrost, snow cover, frozen soils, glacial and periglacial geomorphology, biological processes in frozen areas, etc).

b) Research on Mountain Areas (meteorology, climatology, tectonics, geomorphology, volcanism, soils, biogeography, torrential dynamics, natural hazards, geoheritage, management issues, territorial planning, etc).

 PAPERS

 The manuscripts must be prepared following the format of the journal in terms of length and figure styles (see guidelines at: (https://publicaciones.unirioja.es/ojs/index.php/cig). They must be original works and authors must assign their contribution to one of the two thematic areas of the contest. Figures and photos will be published in color. A recommended length for the article should be between 10 and 25 pages, although texts with up to 35 pages plus photos and figures can be accepted. The research articles must be written in English.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The works will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

(a) Innovative character in terms of the originality of the approaches, applied methods, cross-cutting nature and, especially, viability of the results when opening new frontiers in research. Ability to critically evaluate well-established methods with arguments and seek new solutions to traditional methodological limitations.

(b) Quality of the research, where the conclusions are duly supported by the analysis of the information.

(c) Quality in the communication, both in the way of structuring the work, and in the written and graphic language when expressing the process and result of the investigation.

EVALUATION PROCESS

The manuscript will be evaluated in a first selection by the editors of the respective topics, with the help of a scientific committee, until selecting a maximum of 30 works for each of the two thematic areas. The selected works will be sent for evaluation to external referees, with the help of those proposed by the participants. The editors and the scientific committee of each area, in light of the external evaluation, will select the awarded works (up to a total of 17 per subject), and, where appropriate, send the works back to the authors for final corrections.

EDITORS

Each of the thematic areas and, therefore, each Special Issue, will be organized by a group of editors, composed of GFAM members and other external leading experts in the subject. The editors will coordinate the entire process until the final publication of each Special Issue.

Editors of Cryosphere Science Special Issue: David Palacios (Complutense University of Madrid), José M. García-Ruiz (CSIC), Marc Oliva (University of Barcelona), José María Fernández-Fernández (Complutense University of Madrid).

Editors of Research on Mountain Areas Special Issue: Nuria Andrés (Complutense University of Madrid), Amelia Gómez-Villar (University of Leon), Luis Miguel Tanarro (Complutense University of Madrid), Jesús Ruiz-Fernández (University of Oviedo).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

Each of the thematic areas will have a scientific committee including world experts in the subject that will assess in the evaluation and selection of the works.

 

KEY DATES

Opening of the call: January 15, 2018

Deadline for submission of papers: OCTOBER 15, 2018

Resolution of the first selection: October 31, 2018

- Rejected works will be returned to the authors

- The accepted papers will be sent to external referees for evaluation.

Resolution of the second evaluation: January 30, 2019

- The rejected works will be returned, suggesting potential improvements on singular topics and recommending other publications.

- The selected works will be sent to the authors, with the required corrections to proceed for publication.

Final presentation of the awarded works: March 30, 2019

Outcome and award announcement: May 1, 2019

Start of the process of editing the works: May 1, 2019

 

The works will be gradually published online by the journal as they are edited. It is expected that they will be published in paper and in color in 2020.

 

AWARDS

 

There will be one prize for each of the two areas. There will be a FIRST AWARD, SECOND AWARD AND THIRD AWARD and 14 HONOUR AWARDS so each Special Issue will have a total of 17 articles, which will make up the corresponding Special Issue. The award and nominations will be announced at newsletters of the GFAM and MOUNTAIN RESEARCH INITIATIVE, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GEOMORPHOLOGISTS, INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL UNION, INTERNATIONAL PERMAFROST ASSOCIATION.

INFORMATION AND CONTACT

 

All the information will be available in

http://www.ucm.es/gfam//young-researchers-award

The manuscripts must be sent to

youngresearch@ucm.es

where further information can be requested, if necessary

Address

YOUNG RESEARCHER INNOVATION AWARD

Department of Geography

Faculty of Geography and History

Complutense University of Madrid

Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid 28040, Spain

Phone (34) 913945955

 

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Michaela Kňažková

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Michaela Kňažková, Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, for the contribution to the manuscript “EFFECT OF HYALOCLASTITE BRECCIA BOULDERS ON MESOSCALE PERIGLACIAL-AEOLIAN LANDSYSTEM IN SEMI-ARID ANTARCTIC ENVIRONMENT, JAMES ROSS ISLAND, ANTARCTIC PENINSULA”.

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Carla Tapia Baldis.

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Carla Tapia Baldis. IANIGLA (Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales), CCT Conicet, Av. Ruiz Leal s/n. Parque Gral. San Martín. CP: 5500. CC: 330, Mendoza, Argentina, for the contribution to the manuscript “PERMAFROST MODEL IN COARSE-BLOCKY DEPOSITS FOR THE DRY ANDES, ARGENTINA (28°-33° S)”.

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in MOUNTAIN AREAS topic has gone to - Catarina Romão Sequeira

FIRST AWARD AND HONORABLE MENTION in MOUNTAIN AREAS topic has gone to  Catarina Romão Sequeira, Forest Geography, Policy and Socioeconomics Research Group, Department of Geography, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain, for the contribution to the manuscript “ LANDSCAPE-BASED FIRE SCENARIOS AND FIRE TYPES IN THE AYLLÓN MASSIF (CENTRAL MOUNTAIN RANGE, SPAIN), 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES”.

SECOND AWARD in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Jesús Revuelto,

SECOND AWARD in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Jesús Revuelto, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13.034, 50.080-Zaragoza, Spain, for the contribution to the manuscript “GENERATION OF DAILY HIGH-SPATIAL RESOLUTION SNOW DEPTH MAPS FROM IN-SITU MEASUREMENT AND TIME-LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHS”.

THIRD AWARD in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Alfonso Pisabarro

THIRD AWARD in CRYOSPHERE SCIENCE topic has gone to Alfonso Pisabarro, Department of Geography, University of Valladolid, Plaza del Campus s/n, 47011 Valladolid, Spain for the contribution to the manuscript “SNOW COVER AS A MORPHOGENIC AGENT DETERMINING GROUND CLIMATE, LANDFORMS AND RUNOFF IN THE VALDECEBOLLAS MASSIF, CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS”.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

MANE OF Drs.	INSTITUTION	MAIN TOPICS
Adler, Carolina	University of Bern Mountain Research Initiative	Mountain management, mountain risks, mountain and climatic change
Azevedo, João	Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal	Mountain ecology
Beguería, Santiago	Pyrenean Institute of Ecology -CSIC, Spain	Mountain hydrology
Benito-Oterino,  Belén	Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain	Geodesy, Mountain hazards, landscape  modeling
Benito, Gerardo	Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Spain	Mountain hydrology, mountain floods
Blard, Pierre-Henri	CNRS, CRPG, Uinversity of Lorraine, France.	Mountain geochronology, tropical glaciers
Briner, Jason	University of New York at Buffalo, USA	Mountain glacial evolution in North America and Greenland
Cerda, Artemi	University of  Valencia, Spain	Mountain erosion processes
Clague,  John	Simon Fraser University, Canada	Neoglacial climate and environmental change in high mountains
Claramunt, Bernat	Autonomous University of  Barcelona, Spain	Mountain ecology
Copons, Ramón	Institut d'Estudis Andorrans, Andorra	Nivology, Mountain hazards and landscapes
Coratza, Paola	University of Modena, Italy	Mountain risks, slope processes
Decaulne, Armelle	Laboratoire LETG,  UMR-6554 CNRS,France	Mountain slope geomorphology and processes
Delgado-Granados, Hugo	National Autonomous University of  Mexico, Mexico	Volcanology, glaciology, permafrost
Deline,  Philip	University of Savoie-Mont Blanc, France	Mountain geomorphology, geochronology, permafrost, glacial evolution
Delmas, Magali	University of Perpignan, France	Mountain geomorphology, geochronology, glacial evolution
Díez-Herrero, Andrés	Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, Spain	Mountain hydrology, mountains floods
Dorado-Liñán, Isabel	National Institute of Agricultural Research, Spain	Mountain ecology and climatology
Flowers, Gwenn	Simon Fraser University, Canada	Glaciology, glacial hydrology, glaciers and climate interactions
Fountain,  Andrew G.	Portland State University, USA	Glaciology and recent glacial evolution in polar and mountain areas
Fritz,  Michael	Alfred Wegener Institut, Germany	Permafrost
García-Sancho, Leopoldo	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Polar and mountain ecology
Galindo-Zaldivar , Jesus	University of Granada, Spain	Geodynamics of Mountain Belts
Gómez-Ortiz, Antonio	University of Barcelona, Spain	Glacial and periglacial mountain geomorphology
González-Rouco, Fidel	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Climatology and paleo-climatology
Guglielmin, Mauro	Insubria University, Italy	Polar and Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost,
Hall,  Brenda	University of Maine, USA	Glacial geochronology in polar and mountains areas.
Hein, Andy	University of Edinburgh, UK	Glacial geomorphology/ evolution, geochronology; Patagonia and Antarctica
Hughes,  Anna	University of Bergen, Norway	Glacial geomorphology, Glaciology, Palaeoglaciology, Ice sheet reconstruction, Glacial chronologies.
Hughes, Philip	University of Manchester, UK	Mountain glacial geochronology, Mediterranean glaciers
Ivy-Ochs,  Susan	ETH Zuricih, Switzerland	Mountain geomorphology, geochronology, glacial evolution
Jania,  Jacek A.	University of Silesia, Poland	Glaciology
Jaboyedoff , Michel	University of Lausanne, Switzerland	Mountain risks
Kalvoda, Jan	Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic	Mountain geomorphology, geodynamics and hazards.
Kellerer-Pirklbauer, Andreas	University of Graz, Austria	Mountain geomorphology, geochronology, permafrost
Kinnard, Christophe	University of Québec, Canada	Glaciology, Hydrology, Permafrost, Mountain geomorphology
Leonard, Eric	Colorado College, USA	Mountain geomorphology, Geochronology, Ice dynamics
Lewkowicz, Antoni	University of Ottawa, Canada	Impact of climate change in Permafrost
Lipton, Jennifer	Central Washington University, USA	Alpine ecology, cultural ecology in alpine environments and conservation
López-Martínez,  Jeronimo	Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain	Polar and Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost, Mountains Landscapes
Juan  Ignacio  Lopez-Moreno	Pyrenean Institute of Ecology -CSIC, Spain	Nivology, mountain hidrology
Mark, Bryan	Ohio State University, USA	Andean cryosphere evolution
Martin Duque, Jose Francisco	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Mountain mining, conservation of geological mountain heritage.
Matsuoka, Norikazu	University of Tsukuba, Japan	Permafrost, monitoring periglacial processes, geocryology, Alpine geomorphology,
Montoya-Redondo, Marisa	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Climate change and cryosphere
Mora, Carla	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Snow, Remote Sensing
Navarro,  Francisco	Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain	Glaciology
Nývlt, Daniel	Masaryk University, Czech Republic	Permafrost, glacial and periglacial geomorphology
Peña-Monne, Jose Luis	Zaragoza University, Spain	Mountain geomorphology and geochronology
Pérez-Chacón, Emma	University of Las Palmas, Spain	Mountain landscapes
Perez-González, Eugenia	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Climatology
Pina, Pedro	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Polar and Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost, Mountains Landscapes
Ramos-Sainz, Miguel	University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain	Polar and mountain Permafrost
Rea, Brice R	University of Aberdeen, UK	Glacial and periglacial geomorphology Glacier-climate interactions
Renschler, Christian	University of New York at Buffalo, USA	Mountain dynamic  and landscapes modeling
Ribolini, Adriano	University of  Pisa, Italy	Mountain geomorphology, permafrost
Romero-Díaz Asunción	University of Murcia, Spain	Mediterranean mountain dynamic and landscape
Sæmundsson, Þorsteinn	University of Iceland, Iceland	Alpine slope processes, permafrost
Sagredo, Esteban	Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile	Mountain geomorphology, geochronology, glacial evolution
Sancho,  Carlos	Zaragoza University, Spain	Mountain geomorphology and geochronology
Santos González, Javier	University of León, Spain	Mountain geomorphology
Sanjosé-Blasco , Jose Juan	University of Extremadura, Spain	Geodesy, Mountain monitoring.
Schrott,  Lothar	University of Bonn, Germany	Mountain Geomorphology and mountain risks
Serrano,  Enrique	University of Vallalodid, Spain	Polar and Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost, Mountains Landscapes
Soldati , Mauro	University of  Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy	Mountain geomorphology, mountian slope processes
Stoffel, Markus	University of Geneve, Switzerland	Dendrochronology, dendrogeomorphology, mountain slope processes
Stokes, Chris	University of Durham, UK	Glacial geomorphology, Glaciology and palaeo-glaciology, Ice sheet reconstructions.
Schimmelpfennig, Irene	CEREGE, France	Mountain geochronology
Troitiño-Vinuesa, Miguel Angel	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Mountain tourism
Trombotto, Dario	CONICET, Argentina	Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost, Mountains Landscapes
Valero-Garcés, Blas L.	Pyrenean Institute of Ecology -CSIC, Spain	Mountain global change and Limnogeology
Vieira, Gonçalo	University of Lisbon, Portugal	Polar and Mountain Geomorphology, Permafrost, Mountains Landscapes
Vilímek , Vít	Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic	Mountain geomorphology and geodynamics, GLOFs
Vuille,  Mathias	State university of New York at Albany, USA	Climate change in the mountain tropics
Ward, Dylan	University of Cinncinati, USA	Physical and chemical evolution of mountain  landscapes
Whitesides, Clayton	Coastal Carolina University, USA	Mountain ecology and biogeomorphology
Winkler , Stefan	University of Würzburg, Germany	Mountain geomorphology, Holocene glacier chronology,  geochronology
Yagüe- Anguís, Carlos	Complutense University of  Madrid, Spain	Mountain meteorology
Yoshikawa,  Kenji	University of Alaska-Fairbanks,  USA	Permafrost
Zamorano, Jose Juan	National Autonomous University of  Mexico, Mexico	Mountain geomorphology, cartography, natural hazards