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International Conference MedCLIVAR 2016

The International Conference MedCLIVAR 2016 was held on 26-29 September 2016 in Athens. The Conference was co-organised by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Mariolopoulos – Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences, the National Observatory of Athens and the Hellenic Center for the Marine Research. The ceremony took place at the Grand Ceremonial… Read More »

WMO Professor Mariolopoulos Trust Fund Award 2016

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… Read More »

13th International Conference on Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics (COMECAP 2016)

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… Read More »

International Conference “Timeless Greece”

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… Read More »

General Assembly of the EU “Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service” (CAMS)

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 –… Read More »

Workshop on “Environment and Health”

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… Read More »

Ceremony for the cutting of New Year’s cake for 2016

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… Read More »

Installation of a modern Meteorological station at Magouliana Peloponnese

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.