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Bruno Messerli |
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1978 Director Geographical Institute |
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1986 Rector University of Bern |
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1996 Professor Emeritus |
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1958-1976 Fieldwork
in the mountains of the Mediterranean Region and in
Africa: Geomorphology, Paleoecology, Natural Resources. |
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1977 - 1986: Director UNESCO-MAB National Research Program in the Swiss Alps.
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1975-1996: Coordinator UNU-Mountain Program with Fieldwork in the Himalayas and Bangladesh: Mountain Ecology, Land Degradation, Natural Hazards and the Impact of the Himalayas on the Floods in Bangladesh.
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1987-1996: Fieldwork in the High Andes of the Atacama Region: Climate Change and Natural Resources.
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1976-82 Vice President and 1997 Honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Sciences
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1986 and 1991 Founding member of the African and Andean Mountain Association
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1989-97 Member Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation
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1995-2001 Director IGBP-PAGES-Office (Past Global Change Program) |
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1996-2000 President International Geographical Union
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2000-2004 Chairman Board of Trustees of IFS (International Foundation for Science)
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Several national and international awards, member of 6 European Academies, including the Russian Academy of Sciences, and especially
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- 1988 Global 500 Honour Roll of UN-Environment Program
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- 1991 Marcel Benoist Prize of the Swiss Government for Scientific Achievements
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- 1998 Dr. h.c. rer.nat. ot the Free University of Berlin
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- 2002 Founders Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, London
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