CEDAR Early-Career Prize Lectures
The Early-Career CEDAR Prize Lecture (adapted from the more informal Early Career Science Highlight) honors recent outstanding scientific contributions of importance to the CEDAR community from Early-Career scientists. The recipient of this award presents an invited plenary lecture at the annual CEDAR workshop on the research contribution for which they were nominated.
Nominations
This award is open to CEDAR members of any nationality and institution, and defines the early-career stage as students, post-docs, and those at any employment position but within 5-years of completion of their terminal degree. The nomination should be based on significant research reported in a peer-reviewed publication(s) within any period of the nominee's career.
A nomination consists of three items:
- Name of nominee;
- Paper citation(s); and
- A maximum 1-page statement of why the research is important and relevant to the CEDAR community by, for example, relating the contribution to the Strategic Thrusts detailed in the CEDAR: The New Dimension, Strategic Vision.
List of Early-Career CEDAR Prize Lectures
The following is a list of the CEDAR Early-Career Prize Lecturers and titles of their talks.
1) 2026, Jack Wang (NASA GSFC Community Coordinated Modeling Center), Wave-Driven Circulation in the Lower Thermosphere: A Dynamical Pathway for Whole-Atmosphere Coupling (pdf)