| Citation | Professor Corinne Le Quere has, since the beginning of her career in the 1990s, been among the world leaders in the development and use of global models to represent the chemical, physical and ecosystem processes and their interaction that regulate biogeochemical cycles in the ocean. Such models are vital for quantitative understanding of the uptake of man-made carbon dioxide by the oceans and for predicting how this will change in the future and so alter atmospheric concentrations of the gas. In addition, she has founded and leads a number of international activities in which her modelling skills are brought to bear on vital policy questions in global environmental change. She received the Claude Berthault award from the French Academy of Sciences in 2012 for 'remarkable work on the interactions between marine biogeochemistry and climate' and in 2013 was the first recipient of the Copernicus Medal 'recognising ingenious, innovative work in the geosciences, planetary and space sciences, and in their exceptional promotion and international collaboration'. |