
Professor Chris Turney
PhD in Geography
1994 to 1998 ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, Egham, U.K.
Ph.D. in 'Stable isotope stratigraphy and tephrochronology of the last glacial-interglacial transition (14-9 ka 14C BP) in the British Isles.鈥 Supervisors Prof. J.J. Lowe and Dr D.D. Harkness (NERC Radiocarbon Laboratory, East Kilbride).
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Environmental Science
1991 to 1994 UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, Norwich, U.K.
B.Sc. (Hons.) in Environmental Science.听 Grade 2:1.
Chris is a recently completed Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science at the University of New South Wales. Chris is an experienced science and industry leader who brings together interdisciplinary teams to tackle global environmental challenges of societal importance in the Anthropocene. Chris champions the value of science in decision-making, and work with governments, industry, the Third Sector and communities to inform on national and global policy and technology deployment.听He is Director of 听and Director of the听.听He is also 国民彩票 Node Director of the听听and is a member of the International radiocarbon Calibration group (IntCal). To help do something positive about climate change, he was a Founding Director and Inventor of New Zealand-based clean tech company听听which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products including sustainably-produced bioengineered graphite for Li-ion batteries.听Chris co-ordinates and teaches on .
Chris听has over 32,000 citations listed in Google Scholar with an h-index of 63听(56 reported in Scopus) and a Scopus Field-Weighted Citation Impact of 5.9 (2016-2021)听鈥 that is, outputs have been cited over 5.9 times the world average for similar publications.听These statistics have been generated from over 220 scientific papers (11 papers in Nature and Science, 1 in Science Advances, 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 3 in Nature Geoscience, 5 in Nature Communications), 1 textbook and 5 books.听Described by the UK Saturday Times as the 鈥new David Livingstone鈥, Chris鈥 team communicate their findings in the field as , reporting discoveries when they happen, where they happen. Chris has received numerous awards, including the Australian Academy of Sciences Frederick Stone Award (2014), the Geological Society of London鈥檚 Bigsby Medal (2009), the Philip Levehulme Prize (2008), and the inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007) from the听International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).
Chris is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Meteorological Society, the Geological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society and the Advance HE.
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