The Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge is the University of Cambridge's Earth Sciences department. First formed around 1731, the department incorporates the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

History

The department's history can be traced back to 1731 when the 1st

Woodwardian Professor of Geology The Woodwardian Professor of Geology is a professorship held in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. It was founded by John Woodward in 1728 under the title of Professor of Fossils. Woodward's will left to the University ...

was appointed, in accordance with the bequest of John Woodward. The present Department of Earth Sciences was formed by an amalgamation of the Department of Geology, Department of Geodesy and Geophysics and the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology in 1980. The main location of the department is at the Downing Site, Downing St. The Bullard Laboratories, located in West Cambridge on Madingley Rd is a satellite department of the main building. The department incorporates the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences and the Godwin Laboratory. The department is the home of the

Sedgwick Club The Sedgwick Club is the official student geological society at the University of Cambridge, and is the oldest student-run geological society in the world. It aims to promote the subject of geology among its members through regular talks and so ...

, which was founded in memory of

Adam Sedgwick Adam Sedgwick (; 22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did on W ...

in 1880, and is the oldest student run geological society in the world.Sedgwick Club website
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Notable people

Fellows and Former Fellows

* Simon Conway Morris FRS *

Michael Bickle Michael James Bickle FRS is a British geologist, and professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He won a 2003 Coke Medal, from the Geological Society The Geological Society of London, known commonly as ...

FRS *

Marie Edmonds Marie Edmonds (born 14 September 1975) is a Professor of volcanology and geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge whose research focuses on the physics and chemistry of volcanic eruptions and magmatism and und ...

* Harry Elderfield FRS * David Hodell FRS (

) *

Timothy Holland Timothy John Barrington Holland is a petrologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Education Holland was educated at the University of Oxford where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosop ...

FRS * Marian Holness FRS * James Jackson FRS CBE *

Nick McCave Ian Nicholas McCave (born 3 February 1941) is a British geologist, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences from 1985 to 2008 and a fellow of St John's College from 1986 to present ...

(Former

) * Dan McKenzie FRS CH * Ekhard Salje FRS * Bob White FRS * Eric Wolff FRS

Alumni

* Stuart Agrell * Sir David Attenborough CH *

John Auden John Lorimer Auden MC (23 August 1894 – 30 March 1959), was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War. He was a collector of natural history. John Lorimer Auden was bo ...

* George Band OBE *

Jon Blundy Jonathan David Blundy FRS (born 7 August 1961) is Royal Society Research Professor at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford and honorary professor at the University of Bristol. Education He is a graduate of University Colleg ...

FRS *

Martin Bott Martin Harold Phillips Bott (12 July 1926 – 20 October 2018) was a British geologist and Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Durham, England. Education Bott was educated at Clayesmore School in Dorset and ...

FRS * Chris Brasher CBE * Derek Briggs FRS * Peter Chadwick FRS * Euan Clarkson * Alan Cook FRS * Claire Craig CBE * Charles Darwin * Gertrude Elles * William George Fearnsides FRS * Richard Fortey FRS * Sir Vivian Fuchs FRS * Thomas Gaskell * Alfred Harker FRS *

W. Brian Harland Walter Brian Harland (22 March 1917 – 1 November 2003) was a British geologist at the Department of Geology, later University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences, England, from 1948 to 2003. He was a leading figure in geological exp ...

* Dorothy Hill FRS * Ted Irving FRS * John E Marr FRS * Sir Mark Moody-Stuart KCMG * Yin Yin Nwe * Mike O'Hara FRS *

Sanjaasürengiin Oyuun Sanjaasuren Oyun ( mn, Санжаасүрэнгийн Оюун), also transcribed S. Oyun, is a Mongolian politician and geologist. She is the leader of the Civil Will Party, is the former Minister of Environment and Green Development, and has be ...

* Bob Parker FRS * Julian Pearce * David Pugh * Ros Rickaby FRS *

* Fred Vine FRS * Lawrence Wager FRS * Gino Watkins * Kathryn Whaler OBE * Leonard Wills * Sir James Wordie CBE, FRS

Former staff

* Edward Bullard FRS * Oliver Bulman FRS * Alex Deer FRS * Maurice Hill FRS * W B R King FRS * O T Jones FRS * Drummond Matthews FRS * W H Miller FRS * Stephen Nockolds * Noel Odell * Sir Keith O'Nions FRS * Lord Oxburgh FRS * Colin Pillinger FRS CBE *

Barrie Rickards Professor Richard Barrie Rickards (1938–2009), was Emeritus Professor in Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy at the Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University and Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. He was best known for his work on Grapt ...

(Extensive studies on graptolites) * Nick Shackleton FRS (Winner of the Wollaston Medal) * R. S. J. Sparks FRS CBE * C E Tilley FRS * Harry Whittington FRS

References

External links

University of Cambridge Dept. of Earth Sciences

Sedgwick Museum

Sedgwick Club
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