Christopher Clark#
| Membership Number: | 6084 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/geography/people/academic-staff/chris-clark |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1021-6679 |
| Twitter: | @ChrisClarkofBC |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 Conferred as Sorby Chair of Geoscience (i.e. named Professorship), University of Sheffield, UK
- 2004 Personal Chair (i.e. Professor), University of Sheffield, UK
- 2002 Reader, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1998 Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1990 Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK
- 1987 PhD student, Grant Institute of Geology, The University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Glacial geomorphology
- Glaciology
- Quaternary science
- Remote sensing
- GIS
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Busk Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
(London, UK) for "profound influence on the understanding of glacial systems through the ‘British-Irish Ice Sheet’ reconstruction"
- 2018 ERC Advanced Grant; 2018-2024 € 2.4 million; PalGlac – Palaeoglaciological advances to understand Earth’s ice sheets by landform analysis.
- 2015 Listed in Who’s Who (A & C Black, Bloomsbury, London) 2015 onwards, for academic contributions [...‘a biographical book with listings of people from around the globe who have an impact on British life, including senior politicians, judges, civil servants, and notable figures from the arts, academia, and other area‘]
- 2012 Principal Investigator of NERC Large Grant; 2012-2018; € 4.45 million, BRITICE-CHRONO: Constraining rates and style of marine-influenced ice sheet decay
- 2009 Conferred as Sorby Chair of Geoscience (i.e. named Professorship), University of Sheffield, UK. Henry Clifton Sorby FRS was an eminent geologist renowned for his work on slaty cleavage and widely regarded as the father of metallography
