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Published 5 December 2025Frontiers Planet Prize national winners announced
As the National Representative Body for the Frontiers Planet Prize in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Royal Society Te Apārangi has selected three national winners to be put forward to the international Frontiers Prize jury.
The national winners are:
- Associate Professor Laura Revell of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha – University of Canterbury for the paper: Near-future rocket launches could slow ozone recovery
- Professor Richard McDowell FRSNZ of Lincoln University for the paper: Anthropogenic nutrient inputs cause excessive algal growth for nearly half the world’s population
- Mr Daniel Hernández-Carrasco of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha – University of Canterbury for the paper: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality.
The Society has partnered with the Frontiers Research Foundation, based in Switzerland, as part of an international effort to accelerate scientific solutions to planetary challenges. In 2022, the Foundation established the Frontiers Planet Prize, with the ambition of mobilising scientists to address the ongoing global environmental crisis.
The prize is based on the nine planetary boundaries detailed by Professor Johan Rockström and described in the book Breaking Boundaries.
Find out more about the Frontiers Planet Prize.