Sumana Battacharya, Dr. Battacharya is involved in estimating and developing an inventory of greenhouse gases emitted from various regions in India for submission to the UNFCCC. She is also responsible for managing data generated out of the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX). Award Paper: Parashar, D.C., P.K. Gupts and S. Bhattacharya. 1997. Recent Methane Budget Estimates from Indian Rice Paddy Flats. Indian Jrnl. Radio & Space Physics 26: 2327-243.

Leandro V. Buendia, Mr. Buendia’s research focuses on the characterization of the diel and seasonal sampling regimes measurement of methane emissions from rice fields. Using this schedule, accurate albeit low-cost, manual measurements are optimized. Once the pattern of emission is known, appropriate mitigation strategies can be deployed. Award Paper: Buendia, L.V. et al. 1997. Understanding the Nature of Methane Emission from Rice Ecosystems as Basis of Mitigation Strategies. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Maximizing sustainable Rice Yields through improved soil and environmental management, 11-17 November 1996, Khon Kaen, Thailand. pp. 291-306.

Alec Joubert, Dr. Joubert has been studying the use of GCMs for regional applications over southern Africa and assessing their performance in simulating present-day climate over the region. Through a process of model validation, Dr. Joubert has been able to identify a range of models which best simulate climate and to develop scenarios of possible future regional climate change based on increasing concentrations of anthropogenic greenhouse gases. Award paper: Joubert, A.M. and Hewitson, B.C. 1997. Simulating Present and Future Climates of Southern Africa Using General Circulation Models. Prog. Phys. Geog. 21: 51-78.

Joon Kim, Serving as Executive Secretary of the Global Environment Laboratory in the College of Science at Yonsei University and of the IGBP-GCTE program in Korea, Dr. Kim is actively involved in research on surface fluxes of greenhouses gases. Dr. Kim is working to establish a flux network in east Asia and is developing a model of land-atmoshphere exchange processes suitable for use as a lower boundary condition in a primitive-equation atmospheric model at a regional scale. Award Paper: Kim, J. and S.B. Verna. 1996. Surface Exchange of Water Vapor Between an Open Sphagnum Fen and the Atmosphere. Boundary-Layer Meteorology. 79: 243-264.

Daniel Olago, A lecturer at the University of Nairobi, Dr. Olago studies palaeoenvironments and carbon cycling on East African mountains during the late Quaternary period and the Quaternary geochronology of (a) flood basalts in the central Kenya rift and (b) moraine deposits on Mount Kenya using cosmogenic isotopes. Award Paper: Olago, D.O., F.A. Street-Perrott, R.A. Perrott, M. Ivanovich, D.D. Harkness, and E.O. Odada. 1999. Long-Term Temporal Characteristics of Palaeomonsoon Dynamics in Equatorial Africa. Global and Planetary Change.

Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Mr. Pumijumnong has been researching the seasonal and annual variations in teak in northern Thailand for a number of years. He has successfully demonstrated that tree rings can detail the significant effects of climate on tree growth. His work has lead to the possiblity of reconstructing climatic conditions in Thailand over three centuries. Award Paper: Pumijumnong, N., D. Eckstein, and U. Sass. 1995. Tree-Ring Research on Tectona grandis in Northern Thailand. IAWA Jrnl. 16(4): 385-392.

Chandra Venkataramann, Dr. Venkataraman is an assistant professor at Center for Environmental Science and Engineering directing a research program on aerosols and global climate change, behavior and control of gaseous/particulate air pollutants, and the measurement and modeling of toxic organic species in respirable aerosols in combustion emissions. Award Paper: Venkataraman, C., B. Chandramouli and A. Patwardhan. 1999. Anthropogenic sulphate aerosol from India: Estimates of burden and direct radiative forcing, Atmospheric Environment (est. date: July 1999).

Wei Helin, Dr. Wei has been engaged in the TEA regional climate modeling (RCM) study since 1991. Following a two-year tenure at the State University of New York, Albany working on a project on CO2 induced climate change, Dr. Wei has returned to China and is a leader on the TEACOM-APN RCM project. Award Paper: Wei H., Congbin F., and W.-C. Wang. 1998. The Effect of Lateral Boundary Treatment of a Regional Climate Model on the East Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall Simulation. Chinese Jrnl. of Atmos. Sci. 22 (3): 1-9.