The Professor Kazimierz Demel Medal is an honour and expression of special appreciation for extraordinary scientific and organisation achievements in research and promotion of biological, environmental and fisheries knowledge of the sea. It is awarded to Polish and foreign people as well as institutions and associations, based on applications, which can be submitted to the Committee at any time.
The Medal Committee is composed of the past winners of the medal (people only) as well as the Chairman of the Scientific Council and the Director of the National Marine Fisheries Research Institute.
Following the decision of the Medal Committee, this year’s Laureate of this award – for achieving excellence in the field of fisheries and marine biology – was Prof. Markus Meier from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde. The award ceremony took place on 20 March 2024 in Gdynia and was combined with the Laureate’s lecture „Impact of Climate Change on the Baltic Sea ecosystem from a modelling perspective: what do we actually know?”.
From the left: Dr. Mariusz Sapota – Chairman of the NMFRI Scientific Council, Professor Markus Meier – Laureate and Dr. Piotr Margoński – NMFRI Director
