Anthony Watts#
| Membership Number: | 1956 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1999 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~tony/watts |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - present Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics: University of Oxford
- 1989 - 1990 Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Geological Sciences: Columbia University, USA
- 1981 - 1988 Professor of Geological Sciences: Columbia University, USA
- 1976 - 1981 Senior Research Associate in Gravity and Tectonics: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, USA
- 1972 - 1976 Research Associate: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, USA
- 1970 - 1971 National Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow in Marine Geophysics: Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada
Fields of Scholarship
- Marine Geology and Geophysics
- Earth’s gravity field
- Isostasy
- Lithospheric flexure
- Tectonics
- Continental margins
- Sedimentary basins
- Sea-level change
- Landscape evolution
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Harold Jeffreys Lecturer of the Royal Astronomical Society
- 2014 Fellow, The Royal Society
- 2008 Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union
- 2008 Honorary Membership, European Geosciences Union
- 2006 Fellow, Geological Society of America
- 2005 George P. Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America
- 1999 Member, Academia Europaea
- 1993 Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London
- 1992 William Smith Lecturer of the Geological Society of London
- 1988 Bullerwell Lecturer of the British Geophysical Association
- 1985 Fellow, American Geophysical Union
- 1982 Rosenstiel Award of the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami
- 1981 A. I. Levorsen Award of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
