Geoffrey Stewart Boulton (born 28 November 1940) is a British geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the

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. He was awarded the 2006

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, by the

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. He was awarded the 2011 James Croll Medal. He was awarded the

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by the

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in 2001. Between 2007 and 2011 he was General Secretary of the

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, of which he has been a Fellow since 1989. He was elected to membership of the

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in 2022

Life

A member of the Independent Climate Change Email Review Commission, and held the role of lecturer at the

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from 1968 to 1986.

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*https://web.archive.org/web/20120415034212/http://www.dnva.no/binfil/download.php?tid=50106 {{DEFAULTSORT:Boulton, Geoffrey 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