Mr. B. Rohith was awarded the Eugene LaFond Medal for the paper "Basin-wide sea level coherency in the tropical Indian Ocean driven by Madden-Julian oscillations".
The Eugene LaFond Medal is awarded to an ocean scientist from a developing country making a presentation (poster or oral) at an International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans - IAPSO (IAPSO)-sponsored or co-sponsored symposium at the IUGG or IAPSO assemblies.