© RocketNewsProfessor Chris Turney
The description reads:
Academy Medal: for contributions to science by means other than the conduct of scientific research. Hmmm, that actually seems appropriate, since his tourist affair hardly seemed like "scientific research" Here's the bio on Turney in the awards section:
Professor Chris TurneySource: http://www.science.org.au/awards/awardees/2014awards.html
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of New South Wales
Professor Turney is an internationally recognised earth scientist and research leader in both climate and environmental change, from the tropics to the poles. By pioneering new ways of combining climate models with records of past climate change (spanning from hundreds to thousands of years), he has discovered new links between variability mechanisms in the Australian region and global climate change.
I wonder if the award was decided before his Antarctic fiasco or if AAS simply has glossed over the recent incompetence?
Hat tip to Jo Nova
Comment: For more on Turney's 'excellence' see:
Risking lives to promote climate change hype
Damning French analysis of Turney's expedition: Debacle was caused more by "An obvious amateurism"
Hilarious: Akademic Shokalskiy makes it back to port, #spiritofmawson ship of fools still stuck in Antarctica