The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) presented a Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr Robert W Corell. He is Global Change Program Director at The H John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and Senior Policy Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. The award was bestowed upon him on January 17, 2008 in Washington, DC.

It was given for a lifetime of leadership and achievement in advancing environmental science and its use in decision-making, and was presented during NCSE's 8th national conference, Climate Change: Science and Solutions, at a special ceremony at 5:30 p.m., at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.

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Bob Corell was one of the scientists to accompany a small select group who spent three intensive days on Greenland, on a Tällberg Foundation Learning Journey on Climate Change. There is probably no better place on earth to “feel” climate change than the west coast of Greenland, just under the tremendous ice-pack. To the sheer power of this personal physical experience we added the deep knowledge and insights of leading scientists, the perspectives of policy-makers in the field together with the experience of seasoned facilitators.

After the Tällberg Forum 2007, he also led a symposium with scientists and religious leaders on Greenland. Dr Corell has been monitoring one particular glacier near the western town of Ilulissat. It is now flowing into the sea at a rate of 15 km per year - about four times faster than 10 years ago. The gathering took place the Arctic ice melt season ended.