IPA Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Prof. J. Ross Mackay
The International Permafrost Association is proud to announce that the first IPA Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded to Dr. J. Ross Mackay from Canada. The award will be formerly delivered to Dr. Mackay during a ceremony held at the Third European Conference on Permafrost in June 2010 in Longyearbyen.With this award, the International Permafrost Association rewards its founding Secretary-General and one the greatest permafrost researchers alive. Ross Mackay was born on 31 December 1915 in Formosa (Ta…