Christopher Clark - Curriculum Vitae#
Clark, Chris. D. Sorby Chair of Geoscience University of Sheffield, UK
Education
- 1985 B.Sc. Physical Geography, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
- 1990 PhD (NERC scholarship). Grant Institute of Geology, Edinburgh University, UK. ‘Reconstruction of the behaviour of the Laurentide Ice Sheet’. Supervisor: G.S. Boulton, FRS
Selected research grants
- 1993 - 1997 European Space Agency. ERS-1 SAR for landform analysis. £50,000 in kind
- 1994 - 1997 Overseas Develop. Admin. Remote sensing for coastal resources. £299,219
- 1995 - 1996 Natural Environ. Res. Council (NERC). Landscape archaeology. £20,870
- 1996 - 1997 NERC. Seagrass production by remote sensing. £17,566
- 1997 - 1999 EU, Environment - Climate programme. Hydrology of alpine basins. £800,000
- 1997 - 1998 Nutrasweet-Kelco. Kelp detection and mapping from satellite images. £15,000
- 2001 - 2002 British Geological Survey. The last British Ice Sheet. £14,262
- 2005 - 2008 NERC RAPID. Disintegration of the NW European Ice Sheet. £154,492
- 2006 - 2010 NERC. Instability theory of subglacial bedform production. £412,999
- 2012 - 2014 NERC. Ice streams in accelerating ice sheet deglaciation. £197,632
- 2012 - 2018 NERC consortium grant. BRITICE-CHRONO: ice sheet decay. £3.7 Million
- 2018 - 2024 ERC Advanced Grant. Palaeoglaciological advances € 2.4 million
Membership of scientific societies. European Geophysical Union. Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (of London). International Glaciological Society. British Society for Geomorphology. Quaternary Research Association.
Field-work expeditions
- Larch-Kaniapiscua River, Quebec, Arctic Canada, 1994.
- Baffin, Akpatok and Savage islands, Arctic Canada, 1995.
- Torngat Mountains, Arctic Canada, 1995.
- Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean, 1995.
- Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean, 1996.
- Tahiti and Rangiroa, French Polynesia, 1998.
- Kola Peninsula, Arctic Russia, 2002.
- Thelon River, Keewatin, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, 2004.
- Thelon River, Keewatin, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, 2005.
- Thelon River, Keewatin, Nunavut, Arctic Canada, 2006.
- Gronford, Svalbard, 2009.
- Longyearbyen, Svalbard, 2010.
- Gronford, Svalbard, 2011.
- Shetland, 2014.
- North Sea, Minch & Shetland, cruise on NERC’s RRS James Cook as part of BRITICE-CHRONO, 2015.
- West Greenland, 2018.