Barbara Maher#
| Membership Number: | 6749 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/people/barbara-maher |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8759-8214 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor Emerita, Lancaster University
- 2000 Professor, Lancaster University
- 1987 - 2000 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
- 1985 - 1987 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (Natural Environment Research Council, NERC), Department of Geophysics, University of Edinburgh
Fields of Scholarship
- Sediment provenancing
- Particulate air pollution, health impacts, mitigation
- Environmental magnetism
- Palaeomagnetism
- Quaternary palaeoclimate
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2023 Distinguished Lecturer, American Geophysical Union College of Fellows
- 2021 Edward Bullard Lecturer, American Geophysical Union, ‘to recognize distinguished scientists with proven leadership in their fields of science’.
- 2020 Fellowship of the American Geophysical Union, for ‘Outstanding contributions to understanding fine-particle magnetism, ancient monsoons, global dust cycles, and atmospheric particulate pollution’.
- 2014 Schlumberger (now Neumann) Award, The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, for ‘scientific excellence in mineralogy and its applications’.
- 2013 Pilkington Teaching Prize, ‘to acknowledge excellence in teaching’.
- 2006 - 2012 Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award, for ‘Environmental magnetism: innovative problem-solving in climate change and pollution’.
- 2005 The Charles Chree Medal and Prize (now the Appleton Medal), Institute of Physics, for ’Pioneering contributions to the study of magnetic signals from the geological record as a means of determining climatic changes’.
