{"id":49899,"date":"2018-09-18T10:33:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=49899"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:42","slug":"carletons-lenore-fahrig-awarded-royal-society-medal-for-environmental-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carletons-lenore-fahrig-awarded-royal-society-medal-for-environmental-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton\u2019s Lenore Fahrig Awarded Royal Society Medal for Environmental Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton\u2019s Lenore Fahrig Awarded Royal Society Medal for Environmental Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Lenore Fahrig has been awarded the 2018 Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Romanowski Medal is the only Royal Society medal that is specifically for environmental research,\u201d said Fahrig. \u201cGiven the high calibre of environmental research across Canada, and at Carleton, I feel extremely honoured to receive this medal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award recognizes contributions to the resolution of scientific aspects of environmental problems or important improvements to the quality of an ecosystem in all aspects &#8212; terrestrial, atmospheric and aqueous &#8212; brought about by scientific means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe reward is a telling recognition of Fahrig\u2019s remarkable accomplishments and an invitation from her colleagues to further the leadership she has already shown in advancing knowledge in Canada,\u201d said Rafik Goubran, vice-president (Research and International).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fahrig&#8217;s work has created paradigm shifts in research on habitat connectivity and fragmentation, road ecology and sustainable agriculture. She is a trailblazer in these fields, with one of the highest citation rates in ecology, including the world&#8217;s most-cited paper on habitat fragmentation. She is a highly influential and internationally renowned researcher in conservation ecology and her contributions have helped define the field of landscape ecology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The medal ceremony will take place in Halifax on Nov. 17, 2018 during the RSC\u2019s annual general meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/rsc-src.ca\/en\/celebration-excellence-and-engagement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Celebration of Excellence and Engagement<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>\nMedia Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elizabeth Murphy<br>\nCommunications Co-ordinator<br>\nCarleton University<br>\n613-520-2600, ext. 8834<br>\n<a href=\"mailto:Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca\">Elizabeth.Murphy@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lenore Fahrig has been awarded the 2018 Miroslaw Romanowski Medal from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). \u201cThe Romanowski Medal is the only Royal Society medal that is specifically for environmental research,\u201d said Fahrig. \u201cGiven the high calibre of environmental research across Canada, and at Carleton, I feel extremely honoured to receive this medal.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":49907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,175,104],"class_list":["post-49899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-awards","tag-biology","tag-science"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49901,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49899\/revisions\/49901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}