Policy,
Guidelines, and Procedures for Awards and Lectureships
The
following general principles apply to IAUC awards and lectureships.
1. All final decisions on the
creation of an award or lectureship—its purposes, terms of reference, and conditions—and
on award and lectureship recipients, are made by the IAUC Board.
2. Awards and lectureships
are to be maintained at the highest level. While an award winner or lecturer may be
chosen annually (or at some other designated interval), it may often be more
suitable to present the award only occasionally, and an award committee or
panel should not hesitate to not give an award in a year when there is no outstanding nominee. Justification is required if, in an
exceptional case, a multiple award is recommended to the Board.
3. With the exception of
student awards, awards and lectureships (if they are created) will be solely in
the form of medals, plaques, certificates, etc., and not in the form of cash or
cash equivalent.
4. All awards and lectureships
will be considered for renewal or termination by the Board every eight years
beginning
B.
Establishing Awards/Lectureships
1. Awards and lectureships
are established only when there is clear justification.
2. Awards and lectureships
may be named or unnamed.
3. Awards and lectureships
are named only for deceased members of the urban climate community who are
deserving of such recognition.
4. A proposal for a new award
or lectureship may be submitted to the President of the IAUC by any member or
group of the Association. The proposal,
not to exceed five pages in length, shall include sufficient background and
justification indicating, for example, that the pool of potential awardees is
large enough to justify the new award or lectureship. Additional letters of support from relevant
portions of the affected community will be welcome. The proposal shall also include suggested
Terms of Reference and the method for selection of awardees.
5. Proposals for a new award
or lectureship will be reviewed by the IAUC Awards Committee. When appropriate, this group will request
input and comments from other segments of the Association.
6. The IAUC Awards committee will
recommend a course of action to the Board.
C.
Award and Lecturer Nomination Procedure
1. Nominations may be
submitted to the Chair of the IAUC Awards committee by any member or group of
the Association. Exact details of the
nomination procedure will be specified for each award.
2. The nomination must include
a proposed citation and a condensed curriculum vitae. Up to three additional letters of support may
be submitted with the nomination.
3. Nominations will be active
for three years, and updated information may be submitted for consideration in
the second and third years.
D.
Selection Procedures
All awards and lectureships
are approved by the Board. Selection
procedures will be specified for each award. These will be approved by the Board.
E.
Policy on Named Conferences/Symposia and Special Issues of Journals
Recognition of scientists in
the Urban Climate field, living or deceased, in the form of a named conference
or symposium, or of a named special issue of a journal, is an honor reserved
for only the most outstanding of our colleagues. It should be awarded only to those individuals
who are completing a career, or who have recently died having completed a
career, of significant achievements in their field.
Proposals for either a named
conference/symposium or special issue, including the nature of the content for
the conference/symposium or special issue that justifies its naming, from any
member or group of the Association should be submitted to the President of the Board
for consideration by the Board. Final
approval lies with the Board.
F.
Guidelines for memorials.
A memorial is defined as a
gift, award, publication, or activity accepted or created by action of the IAUC
for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of a person or group of persons.
1. Memorials shall be
established by action of the Board.
2. Memorials shall normally
be established only for nonliving persons. There shall be no exclusions based on
membership in the IAUC, nationality, race, religion, or sex.
3. Memorials shall satisfy
both of the following criteria:
a) The accomplishments and ideals
of the person being memorialized shall have been such as to advance the study
of urban climate.
b) The objective of the
memorial, be it an award, scholarship, publication, or other activity, shall be
such as to advance the aims of the IAUC.
4. Memorials shall be
considered in two categories: designated and undesignated.
a) Designated memorials are
normally established for a specified object in such a way as to memorialize an
individual or group of individuals. If
the memorial is in the nature of a periodic payment or award, sufficient
capital will normally be provided to fund the award over the stated duration of
the memorial.
b) Undesignated memorial
gifts may be accepted by the IAUC to be used in ways and for purposes to be
determined by the Board, including the amalgamation of several such memorials
for a specific purpose.
5. The designation of
memorials to provide scholarships for the assistance of students pursuing
appropriate courses of study at academic institutions is encouraged.
6. The use of memorial funds
to publish a special volume or monograph is encouraged.
The
IAUC Awards Committee
The IAUC Awards Committee
will recommend to the IAUC Board up to one person to receive the annual IAUC
Luke Howard Award for continued significant contributions to the field of urban
climate. It will also organize a sub-committee
to run a student competition at ICUC meetings, prepare a section on the IAUC
web page summarizing its activities, and report to the Board on its activities.
The Committee will consist of
five persons, with no more than one person from any country (based on their
current or last professional affiliation). The five members will include both the current
and next chairs, the latter a committee member who will have served one full
year before their term as chair will begin. Members will normally serve a three-year term
and cannot serve two consecutive terms. The
IAUC Board will select new members each year to replace those rotated off,
i.e., 1-3 new members will be needed, depending on year. For the initial committee, the Board will
designate the first and second chairs, who will serve three year terms. The Board will identify one remaining initial
committee member to serve only a one year term and two to serve only two year
terms. This will allow new members to
rotate onto the Committee in a timely manner.
IAUC
Awards
IAUC
Luke Howard Award for outstanding contributions to the field of urban
climatology
The Luke Howard Award will be
given annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to the
field of urban climatology in a combination of research, teaching, and/or
service to the international community of urban climatologists. The IAUC Awards committee will recommend to
the IAUC Board the recipient of this award. The IAUC Awards committee can elect not to
give an award in a given year.
Luke Howard Award Nomination Process
Nomination materials will be
collected by a nomination coordinator, i.e., the first person who notifies the
chair of the IAUC Awards Committee that a particular person will be nominated. No self nominations are permitted and current
Awards Committee members cannot be nominated. The coordinator will collect the following
documentation: three-page candidate-CV and three two-page letters of
recommendation from IAUC members from at least two different countries.
Luke Howard Award Schedule
1
October: Complete nomination packets (single electronic submission) due to
Committee chair
1
November: Committee votes and Chair forwards nominee’s packet (electronically)
to Board
1
December: Board makes decision and announces winner
Student
Paper Awards
The IAUC Awards Committee
Chair will select a sub-committee of five IAUC members, designating a chair,
who will review student (oral and poster) presentations at a given ICUC
meeting. The committee will then select
winners (e.g. first, second, and third place), whose names will be announced at
the end of the meeting. All winners will
receive a certificate describing their achievement.
The
The Japan Prize honors
researchers from developing countries who are judged to have given the best
papers at an ICUC conference.
The awards are made possible
by Professor Y. Nakamura and seven of his colleagues from
Amount of
Award: $1000(US) for each recipient
Number of
Awards: Maximum of three for each
International Conference on Urban Climate. The awards will not be ranked.
Decision: To be made by a sub-committee of the Awards
Committee.
Eligibility: Any researcher from a developing country (based on
current country of residence/professional affiliation) presenting a paper at a
ICUC conference. The definition of developing countries will follow definitions
by the WMO.
Announcements: Announcements of the Award and the Recipients will be
made through the IAUC Newsletter and UrbClim email list
The
William P. Lowry Memorial Awards
These
awards are made possible by the sons of William (Bill) P. Lowry: Samuel C.
Lowry and Porter P. Lowry II, September, 2005.
Scope and Aims
Three
cash awards, including two prizes for presentations and one travel assistance
award, to be made in conjunction with the (approximately) triennial,
international IAUC meetings.
The
IAUC Awards Committee and the sons of the late Prof. William P. Lowry offer the
awards to honor Prof. Lowry's lifetime contributions to the fields of urban
climatology and bioclimatology, and to encourage, celebrate, and modestly
support outstanding and pertinent work.
The
particular groups targeted - graduate students in urban bioclimatology, climate
methodologists, and climatology graduate students from
Funding
Funding
will be provided from the William P. Lowry Memorial Fund, established in the
year 2000 under the auspices of the Missouri Botanical Garden using private
contributions and revenue from ongoing sales of Prof. Lowry's three principal
textbooks, Fundamentals of Biometeorology (Vols. 1 and 2) and Atmospheric Ecology
for Designers and Planners.
The Awards
1.
The William P. Lowry Graduate Student Prize is a cash award of $200 made to the student
author/presenter of the best oral presentation (or poster) in urban
biometeorology/bioclimatology presented at the IAUC meetings by a graduate
student. The winner will be judged during the course of the meetings by an ad
hoc committee of three, appointed by the IAUC Awards Committee (or by the
appropriate IAUC standing committee).
Ordinarily the prize will go to a paper that is also the subject of an oral
presentation. However, the ad hoc committee may elect to award the prize to the
author/presenter of a poster or other non-oral presentation, if they judge the
work to be the most deserving.
The single work selected for this prize may be judged to be the most
significant, innovative, seminal, groundbreaking, intellectually exemplary,
and/or integrative among those eligible.
2.
The William P. Lowry Methodology Prize is a cash award of $200 made to the author/presenter
of a paper (or poster) presented at the IAUC meetings that incorporates the
best conceptual or experimental methodology.
The winner may be either a student or an established professional (with
preference going to a student if two or more presentations are judged equally
worthy); the system of judging is the same as that for the Graduate Student
Prize, above.
The single work selected for this prize must be judged to use the best
conceptual or experimental methodology among those eligible.
3.
The William P. Lowry African Student Travel Award is a cash award of $300 to help defray travel expense
to the IAUC meetings for a graduate student traveling from the continent of
The recipient will be selected during the meeting registration process by an ad
hoc committee appointed by the IAUC Awards Committee (or by the appropriate
IAUC standing committee).
The award will be made to the first eligible applicant to register for the
meetings who, in the committee's judgment, demonstrates a need for the support.
The committee will notify the recipient of the award and encourage the
recipient to use the award to seek matching travel support from other sponsors.
Administration
All
three William P. Lowry Memorial Awards will be made directly to the recipients,
in cash, at the meetings. Awards will not be made to academic or other
institutions on behalf of the recipients.
In
advance of the meetings, Administrators of the Lowry Memorial Fund will arrange
for the
Winners
of all awards will also receive a set of Prof. Lowry's three textbooks (titles
mentioned above), which will be provided to the designated IAUC officer prior
to the IAUC meetings.
Once
the recipients have been selected, IAUC will send notification to the
Administrators of the Lowry Memorial Fund (Samuel C. Lowry and Porter P. Lowry
II) indicating the names of the recipients, their professional contacts, the
title of the winning presentations (for Prizes I and II), and any other
information deemed pertinent. Photos of the award presentations would be greatly
appreciated so that they can be posted on the Lowry Memorial Fund Web site.
The
Administrators of the Lowry Memorial Fund anticipate the awards to be funded
throughout the lifetimes of Prof. Lowry's sons, until and unless IAUC notifies
MBG that the awards are no longer needed.
The
committees and their members whom IAUC assigns to select award recipients are
fully empowered to use their judgment in fulfilling and interpreting the
awards' aims.
Prof.
Lowry's sons reserve the right to modify the awards' terms and particulars,
subject to consultation with IAUC.