Sarmiento receives Roosevelt Government Leadership Award

Oct. 7, 2019

Jorge Sarmiento, the George J. Magee Professor of Geoscience and Geological Engineering, Emeritus, was one of 15 recipients of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Government Leadership Awards presented by Government Executive Media Group.

Sarmiento (at left), who is director of the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project (SOCCOM) based in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), was honored for his directorship of the Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES) and its predecessor, the PEI-sponsored Cooperative Institute for Climate Science. [read more]