Geoffrey Stewart Boulton (born 28 November 1940) is a British
geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the
University of Edinburgh
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.
He was awarded the 2006
Lyell Medal
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, by the
Geological Society
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Fe ...
.
He was awarded the 2011
James Croll Medal
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. He was awarded the
Seligman Crystal
The Seligman Crystal is an award of the International Glaciological Society.
The prize is "awarded from time to time to one who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to glaciology so that the subject is now enriched" and named after Ger ...
by the
International Glaciological Society
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in 2001. Between 2007 and 2011 he was General Secretary of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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, of which he has been a Fellow since 1989. He was elected to membership of the
Academia Europaea
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The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europea ...
in 2022
Life
A member of the
Independent Climate Change Email Review Commission,
and held the role of lecturer at the
University of East Anglia
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from 1968 to 1986.
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120415034212/http://www.dnva.no/binfil/download.php?tid=50106
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1940 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of the University of East Anglia
British geologists
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal
Lyell Medal winners