Dr. Naiming Yuan from the Department of Geography, JLU, collaborator of Workpackage B, is awarded the "WMO Professor Mariolopoulos Trust Fund Award for 2016" for his important published work on "Detrended Partial-Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Correlations in Complex System”, published in Nature Scientific Reports in 2015. The prize is 2500 Dollar and will be given to Naiming 26 September in Athens, Greece.