A high honour awarded to permafrost scientists for their contribution to Russian-German cooperation in Arctic research

• Published in: Криосфера Земли
• Main Authors: Alekseeva, Olga I, Morgenstern, Anne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Alfred Wegener Institute; Arctic; permafrost; Yakutsk
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55856/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55856/1/AlekseevaMorgenstern_2022_EarthCryosphere.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.94be2941-9ac4-4892-be15-15552f040a2c

Dr. Mikhail Nikolaevich Grigoriev, Deputy Director of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute SB RAS (Yakutsk, Russia) and Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten, former director of the Potsdam Unit of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Potsdam, Germany) were awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the development of Russian-German cooperation in Arctic research. The ceremony of bestowal took place in the MPI’s conference hall in Yakutsk on October 6, 2021.