INABA Prize:

1. This prize is awarded during each ILRC to an individual under the age of 40 who is judged to have presented the best paper at the ILRC.

2. The award consists of a scroll and a cash prize of US $1,200.

3. The Committee for selecting and confirming the recipient of this prize consists of members of the ILRC program committee, the chairpersons of the organizing/steering committee, and the ICLAS chairperson.

4. The ICLAS chairperson is responsible for supervising the Inaba funds.

Inaba Prize Winners:

Year	Name	ILRC
1994	Dr. Albert Ansman	17th Sendai, Japan
	for his outstanding paper entitled: "Determination of Pinatubo-Aerosol Optical Depth and Microphysical Parameters without Critical Assumptions"
1996	Dr. Mathilde Douard	18th Berlin, Germany
	for her outstanding paper entitled: "A Fourier Transfer Lidar"
1998	Dr. Liesl M. Little	19th Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A.
	for her outstanding paper entitled: "Initial Development of a Fiber-Based Lidar System for Atmospheric Water Vapor Measurements" (Liesl M. Little et al.)
2000	Dr. Gorazd Poberaj	20th Vichy, France
	for his outstanding paper entitled: "Airborne All-Solid-State DIAL for Water Vapor Measurements in the Tropopause Region"
2002	Dr.Paolo Di Girolamo Universita degli Studi della Basilicata, Potenza, Italy	21st Quebec, Canada
	for his outstading paper entitled: "Simulation of the Lidar Dark Band Phenomenon"
2004	Dr. Vincent Noel	22nd Matera City, Basilicata, Italy
	for his outstanding paper entitled: "Study of Ice Crystals Orientation in Ice Clouds based on Polarized Observations from the FARS Scanning Lidar"
2006	Yongxiang Hu NASA LaRC, Hampton, VA, U.S.A.	23nd Nara City, Japan
	for his outstanding paper entitled: "A Simple Multiple Scaterring-Depolarization Relation of Water Clouds and its Potential Applications"
2008	Yukari Hara National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan	24nd Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.
	for his outstanding paper entitled: "3D Transport Structure of Asian Dust Retrieved by NASA CALIOP and a Dust Transport Model Assimilated with the NIES Lidar Network Data"(S07P-09)
2010	Boyan Tatarov National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2, Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0053, Japan	25th St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
	For his outstanding paper entitled: “Multi-Channel Lidar Spectrometer for Atmospheric Aerosol Typing on the Basis of Chemical Signatures in Raman Spectra” (S1O-12)
2012	Matthew Hayman  Advanced Studies Program, National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO, USA	26th Porto Heli, Greece
	for his outstanding paper entitled: “Polarization Configuration of the GV-HSRL for Detection of Horizontally Oriented Ice Crystals” (S10-09)
2015	Mikkel Brydegaard Lund Laser Centre, Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden	27th New York City, NY, USA
	for his outstanding paper entitled: “Daily Evolution of the Insect Biomass Spectrum in an Agricultural Landscape Accessed with Lidar” (S12-04)