Professor Mark Harris at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has been awarded the Silver Musgrave Medal for outstanding merit in the field of science by the Council of the Institute of Jamaica.
Harris is professor of environmental chemistry and applied climatology in the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Science at NCU.
He has authored more than 30 research papers and several books, his latest being ‘Confronting Global Climate Change: Experiments and Applications in the Tropics’, which was presented to Prime Minister Andrew Holness last year.
NCU President Dr Lincoln Edwards says the university is extremely proud of Harris’ accomplishment.