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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. Working across the globe, Chris is extending historic records back to 130,000 years ago to improve projections of future climatic and environmental change. As part of this work, Chris set up and co-ordinates the international Earth's Past Future Project. He is UNSW node Director and...view more
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. Working across the globe, Chris is extending historic records back to 130,000 years ago to improve projections of future climatic and environmental change. As part of this work, Chris set up and co-ordinates the international Earth's Past Future Project. He is UNSW node Director and Climate Theme Leader of the new Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodoversity and Heritage (CABAH) and is a member of the International radiocarbon Calibration group (IntCal). In UNSW, he is co-director of the Palaeontology, Geobiology and Earth Archives Research (PANGEA) Centre and is also a member of the Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC). Chris co-ordinates and teaches on GEOS3761 ‘Environmental Change’.
Chris has published more than 170 research papers, 1 textbook and 3 popular science books, attracting more than 14,000 citations. He has an H-index of 46 in Scopus (52 in Google), and 2 Highly Cited Papers listed in Clarivate's Essential Science Indicators. Described by the UK Saturday Times as the ‘new David Livingstone’, Chris’ team communicate their findings in the field as Intrepid Science, 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’s Bigsby Medal (2009), the PhilipLevehulme Prize (2008) and the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007). To do something positive about climate change, he helped set up a carbon refining company called CarbonScape which has developed technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products.
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 Higher Education Academy.
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Ice, Mud & Blood: Lessons from Climates Past
by Chris Turney
Bones, Rocks & Stars: The Science of When Things Happened
by Chris Turney
Iced In: Ten Days Trapped in Antarctica
“The Antarctic Factor: if anything can go wrong, it will. It's basically Murphy's Law on steroids…”
Shackled
In 2013, Australian earth scientist Chris Turney led an ambitious expedition to Antarctica. It promised so much – discovery, history, adventure – but came with great risk.Videos
Past environmental changes and their impacts are increasingly providing valuable insights into how our planet works. And it’s becoming evermore clear that nowhere is really isolated from anywhere else. From Sydney to the Arctic, seemingly unrelated parts of the world are connected in one way or another. The course GEOS3761 ‘Environmental Change’ is on offer at the University of New South Wales and designed to provide you with a critical understanding of past environmental change and what this means for the future.
I hope you can join us.