Prof Geoffrey Boulton

    Prof Geoffrey Boulton's Biography

    Forename(s)
    Geoffrey Stewart
    Sex
    Male
    Decorations
    OBE (2000)
    Date of Birth
    28/11/1940
    Foretitle(s)
    Prof
    Surname
    BOULTON
    Style
    Prof Geoffrey Boulton
    Recreations
    climbing, violin, sailing

    Prof Geoffrey Boulton's Professional Career

    Career
    Br Geological Survey 1962-64, Keele Univ 1964-65, Univ of Birmingham 1965-67, Water Dept Nairobi 1968, lectr then reader Sch of Environmental Science UEA 1968-86, prof Univ of Amsterdam 1980-86; Univ of Edinburgh: regius prof of geology and mineralogy 1986-2008, provost and dean Faculty of Science 1994-99 (vice-princ 1999-2008); chm: NERC Polar Science Bd until 1994, NERC Earth Science and Technol Bd, Royal Soc Section Ctee for Earth Science and Astronomy, Academic Advsy Cncl Univ of Heidelberg 2009-, Royal Soc Science Policy Advsy Gp 2012-; memb: Natural Environment Research Cncl, Nature Conservancy Cncl for Scotland Science Bd until 1992, Royal Cmmn on Environmental Pollution 1994-2000, Cncl Royal Soc 1997-2000, Scottish Higher Educn Funding Cncl 1997-2003, Scottish Science Advsy Ctee 2002-08, Cncl for Science and Technol 2004-10, Strategic Cncl Univ of Geneva; gen sec RSE 2007-11; contrib to numerous books and papers in glaciology, Polar science and global environmental change; Kirk Bryan Medal Geological Soc of America, Seligman Crystal Int Glaciological Soc, Lyell Medal Geological Soc of London 2006, Tedford Medal for Science Inst for Contemporary Scotland 2006, James Croll Medal Quaternery Research Assoc 2011; Hon DTech Chalmers Univ, Hon DSc Univ of Birmingham, Hon DSc Univ of Keele, Hon DSc Univ of Heidelberg; FRS 1991, FRSE 1989, FGS; Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Accademiques 2009

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