Press invitation to the Crafoord Days 2010: Meet the legendary Walter Munk

Welcome to meet “the father of oceanography”, Walter Munk, who comes to Sweden to receive the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences, “for his pioneering and fundamental contributions to our understanding of ocean circulation, tides and waves, and their role in the Earth’s dynamics”. The Crafoord Days 2010 begin in Stockholm and end in Lund.

Crafoord Laureate 2010

Walter Munk
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Prize amount: SEK 4 million.

Prize award ceremony: To be held at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS) on 11 May 2010, in the presence of Their Majesties the King and Queen of Sweden.

Crafoord Days 2010 

(for detailed programme, please see link below)

STOCKHOLM (RSAS)
10 May: Prize symposium "Listening to the ocean"
11 May: Prize award ceremony

LUND (Geocentrum II)
12 maj: Prize lecture "The sound of climate change"

Press events

STOCKHOLM
Time: Tuesday 11 May, at 2:45–3:30 pm
Venue: Klubbvillan, RSAS, Frescativägen 4A, Stockholm
NB! Limited amount of places. Mandatory registration to the Press officer.

LUND
Time: Wednesday 12 May, at 2:15–3:00 pm
Venue: Dryas (room 330), Geocentrum II, Sölvegatan 12, Lund
NB! Limited amount of places. Mandatory registration to the Press officer.

Welcome!