The award Ceremony for 2016 was held on 26 September 2016 at the University of Athens. The prize was split to the following two papers: “Do seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions underestimate the predictability of the real world?” by Rosie Eade, Doug Smith, Adam Scaife, Emily Wallace, Nick Dunstone, Leon Hermanson, and Niall Robinson published in Geophysical Research Letters, and… Read More »
The 13th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics (COMECAP 2016) was co-organised by the Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Hellenic Meteorological Society and the Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences. The Conference was held at Thessaloniki in 19-21 September 2016 and was hosted at the Aristotle Research Dissemination… Read More »
The Secretary of the Foundation, Mrs. P. Nicolopoulou Stamati participated and represented the Foundation at at the International Conference “Timeless Greece”, in Ancient Olympia, 28 to 31 August, meeting under the auspices of the the President of the Republic P. Pavlopoulos, in which he attended. Mrs. P. Nicolopoulou Stamati chaired the last deduced session. She also published in… Read More »
A workshop entitled “The Kanaginis Family and its contribution to the society and civilization” took place the 13th of July 2016 at the Museum of Marble Crafts in Pyrgos on the island of Tinos. It was coorganised by the MK Foundation, the Museum of Marble Crafts and the Municipality of Tinos. Scientists and researchers have spoken on the… Read More »
The inaugural General Assembly of the EU “Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service” (CAMS) took place in Athens, 14-16 June 2016. The International meeting was attended by 200 scholars and representatives from the society and business sector and it was coorganised by ECMWF, the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, Academy of Athens, the Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for… Read More »
On May 20th, 2016, the Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences in collaboration with Hippocratic Flame (La flamme d’Hippocrate) and Hippocratic Foundation of Kos coorganized a Workshop on “Environment and Health”. This workshop aimed at raising awareness through an interdisciplinary look at the serious issue of the environmental impact on health. Humans, who are an integral part of… Read More »
The Foundation in collaboration with the Energy Committee of the Academy of Athens, has cosponsored the publication of the Proceedings of the Conference “Energy and Development Planning in Greece”. The conference took place on 30 October 2015 at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens.
On January 30th, the ceremony for the cutting of New Year’s cake took place at the Foundation offices. Present at the ceremony were the President of the MKF Prof. C. Zerefos, the Vice President C. Liatsos, the Secretary of the board of directors P. Nicolopoulou – Stamati, the Treasurer G. Mariolpoulos and the members of the board of… Read More »
On the 5th of January 2016 the Foundation has installed a modern Meteorological station at a height of 1365 meters above sea level at Magouliana Peloponnese, the birth place of late Professor Mariolopoulos, founder of the MKF. At these high elevations there are only a few operational stations in Southeastern Europe.
On the 21-25 September 2015 the Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences coorganized with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Union of Radioecology, the Greek Atomic Energy Commission and the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity Comenius University of Bratislava the “International Conference ENVIRA 2015 on Environmental Radioactivity” under the auspices of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.… Read More »