Biography:Chris Turney
Christian Turney | |
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.jpg) In Svalbard May 2018 | |
| Born | 1973 |
| Citizenship | British and Australian |
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Awards | Frederick White Prize (2014) Australian Laureate Fellowship (2010) Bigsby Medal (2009) Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008) Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007) J.G. Russell Award (2004) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Earth Science Climatology Geology |
| Institutions | University of New South Wales University of Exeter |
| Website | Chris Turney |
Christian S. M. Turney FRSA FGS FRMetSoc FRGS FHEA is Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science and Director of the Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre and the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility at the University of New South Wales.[1]
Education
Turney was educated at St Bede's School, graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Science and completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Career and impact
He was previously Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Exeter. He was awarded the J.G. Russell Award (2004) by the Australian Academy of Science, the inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal by the International Union for Quaternary Research in 2007, a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2009, and the Frederick White Prize by the Australian Academy of Science in 2014.[2] In 2010, Turney was awarded a five-year Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. He has published four books[3][4][5][6] and more than 180 scientific research papers.[7]
In 2013−2014, Turney led the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, a privately funded expedition to the Antarctic in the "Spirit of Mawson", to investigate environmental changes across the region and communicate the value of scientific research. Scientific findings include the recognition of a 1965 Carbon-14 peak preserved in "the Loneliest Tree in the World" and shrubs growing on Campbell Island, New Zealand, that offer a possible marker for the proposed Anthropocene Epoch in the geological timescale.[8] On the return home Turney's ice-strengthened vessel became trapped by a substantial breakout of sea ice. His book on the expedition's discoveries and the team's experiences trapped by sea ice were published in Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica.;[9] in Australia and New Zealand, the same book was published under the name of Shackled.[10]
Turney was a Founding Director and now scientific advisor to New Zealand cleantech company CarbonScape, which has developed patented technology to produce and engineer carbon-negative graphite from biomass to be used in lithium-ion batteries.[11][12]
Publications
Turney has published more than 210 research papers,[12] 1 textbook and 4 popular science books, attracting more than 30,000 citations.[11] He has an h-index of 63 on Google Scholar (54 on Scopus and 62 on ResearchGate). This output put Turney on the 2018 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list, representing the 1% most cited scientists in the world. In the past six years Turney has led Category 1 research projects worth more than $6 million (with a career total of $61 million).
Awards
- Australian Academy of Science Frederick Stone Award (2014)
- Australian Laureate Fellowship (2010)[13]
- Geological Society of London’s Bigsby Medal (2009)
- PhilipLevehulme Prize (2008)
- International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007)
References
- ↑ "University of New South Wales". https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-chris-turney.
- ↑ "Frederick White Prize winner, 2014". https://www.science.org.au/past-winners/2014-awardees#white.
- ↑ Turney, Chris (2006). Bones, Rocks and Stars: the Science of When Things Happened. doi:10.1007/978-0-230-55230-2. ISBN 978-0-230-55194-7. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403985996. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ↑ "Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3083413-ice-mud-and-blood.
- ↑ Turney, Chris (25 July 2012). 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica. ISBN 9781921922725. https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/1912/. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ↑ "Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica". http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/book.aspx/35466.
- ↑ "Chris Turney Google Scholar". https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=BcKoMuoAAAAJ&hl=en.
- ↑ Turney, Chris S. M.; Palmer, Jonathan; Maslin, Mark A.; Hogg, Alan; Fogwill, Christopher J.; Southon, John; Fenwick, Pavla; Helle, Gerhard et al. (2018). "Global peak in atmospheric radiocarbon provides a potential definition for the onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965". Scientific Reports 8 (1): 3293. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5. PMID 29459648. Bibcode: 2018NatSR...8.3293T.
- ↑ "Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica". http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/book.aspx/35466.
- ↑ "Shackled". https://www.penguin.com.au/books/shackled-9780670079117.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Professor Chris Turney" (in en). https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-chris-turney.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Home to Science and Discovery...". http://www.christurney.com/.
- ↑ "UNSW excels in Laureate awards". University of New South Wales. 6 July 2010. https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/unsw-excels-laureate-awards.
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