Geoffrey Stuart Boulton#
| Membership Number: | 6189 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/gboulton |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9535-0684 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 Regius Professor of Geology Emeritus
- 1986 - 2008 University of Edinburgh - Regius Professor of Geology
- 1986 - 1992 Head of Department of Geology, then Geology and Geophysics
- 1993 - 1999 Provost and Dean of Science and Engineering
- 1999 - 2999 Vice Principal
- 1980 - 1986 Professor of Earth Science at the University of Amsterdam
- 1968 - 1980 School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia (Lecturer: 1968 - 1976, Reader: 1976 - 1980)
- 1968 Hydrogeologist - Kenya Department of Water Supply
- 1965 - 1968 Research Fellow, Department of Geology, University of Birmingham
- 1964 - 1965 Demonstrator, Department of Geology, University of Keele
- 1962 - 1964 Scientific Officer, Geological Survey of Great Britain
Fields of Scholarship
- Geology
- Glaciology
Honours and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s National Academy)
- Order of the British Empire
- Kirk Bryan Award of the Geological Society of America
- Commandeur de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (French Government)
- Seligman Crystal of the International Glaciological Society
- Lyell Medal of the Geological Society
- Founder’s Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society
- Science Medal of the Institute for Contemporary Scotland
- Honorary Fellow of the International Union for Quaternary Research
- Inaugural Croll Medal of the Quaternary Research Association
- UK Polar Medal
- Honorary science doctorates from the Universities of Heidelberg, Chalmers (DTechnol), Birmingham and Keele
- Fellow of the International Science Council
