Peter Liss - Curriculum Vitae#

Work Address:

School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1603 592563
Fax. +44 (0)1603 507714

Education:

• 1961-1964 University College, Durham University, B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry and Physics.
  
• 1964-1967 Marine Science Laboratories, University of Wales, Ph.D. Thesis entitled “The Chemistry of Silicon in Sea Water”.

Experience:

• 1967-1969 N.E.R.C. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Oceanography, Southampton University. Research on processes controlling the exchange of gases across the air-sea interface
  
• 1969-1977, Lecturer; 1977-1985, Reader; 1985-present, Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
  
• Summers 1972 and 1973 Visiting research scientist Scripps Institution, UCSD, U.S.A.
  
• January-June 1975 Visiting research scientist Ocean Chemistry Laboratories, Department of the Environment, Victoria, B.C., Canada
  
• June-December 1977 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
  
• 1979-1983 Half-time Scientific Advisor, Environmental Studies Section, U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, London
  
• September-October 1982 Visiting Scientist CSIRO Atmospheric Science Division, Aspendale, Australia
  
• Summers 1989 and 1990 Visiting Scientist, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A.
  
• Acting Director, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, 2009-2010

NATIONAL ACTIVITIES
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Royal Society:

• Chair, Global Environmental Research Committee
  
• Environmental, Climate and Marine Advisory Networks
  
• Member, Working Groups on Ocean Acidification and Ground-level Ozone in the 21st century
  
• National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
  
• Member Organising Group for Royal Society Discussion meetings on “Tracers in the Ocean”, May 1987; “Understanding the North Sea System”, November 1992; “Atmospheric Chemistry of Sulphur in Relation to Aerosols, Clouds and Climate”, July 1996; and “Greenhouse Gases in the Earth System: Setting the Agenda to 2030”, February 2010
  
• Co-organiser of Royal Society/NERC Discussion Meeting on “Future Chemical Changes to the Atmosphere”, February 2004

Natural Environment Research Council:

• Member of Council (1990-1995)
  
• Chair, Marine Sciences Committee and Marine Science and Technology Board
  
• Atmospheric Sciences Committee and Atmospheric Sciences Science and Technology Board, Resources and Strategy Committee
  
• Co-Director Earth System Science Summer School (began 2001)
  
• Member of Steering Committees for NERC Special Topics/Directed Programmes in Estuarine Processes, Atmospheric Chemistry, North Sea Community Research Programme, Atmospheric Chemistry Studies in the Oceanic Environment (ACSOE), Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
  
• Member British Antarctic Survey Integrated Review Committee
  
• Chair, Earth System Science Strategy Group (2006-7)
  
• Member, Advisory Board National Oceanography Centre (NOC)
  
• Chair, Oceans 2025 Advisory Board and Chair NOC Associates Board

Marine Biological Association of the UK:

• Member of the Council (3 terms)
  

British Council:

• Member Science, Engineering and Environment Advisory Committee

Inter-Agency Committees:

• Marine Science and Technology, Independent Member
  
• Global Environmental Change, Chairs of Biogeochemical Dynamics Working Group and Expert Panel on UK Strategy for Global Environmental Research
  
• Chair, Global Environmental Change Committee – Coordination and Agenda Sub-group (2007-)

Challenger Society:

• President (2006-2008)
  
• Chair, UK Oceanography 1988

Higher Education Funding Council’s Research Assessment Exercise, Panel for Earth and Environmental Sciences:

• Member 1992 and 1996
  
• Chair 2001

Science Council:

• Member of Council (representing President of IMarEST)
  

Department of the Environment:

• Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (1985-1991)

H.M./Government:

• Expert Witness and Advisor to various House of Commons/Lords Science and Technology Select Committees
  
• Member MoD Expert Panel on Sustaining Scientific Excellence at the Meteorological Office
  
• Commissioner, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (2005-)

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES#

International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (of ICSU):

• Chair, Scientific Committee (1993-1997)
  
• Treasurer, Scientific Committee (1990-1993)
  
• Co-Chair Planning Committee for Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS); appointed Chair of Scientific Steering Committee (2001-2007)
  
• Scientific Steering Committee for International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC)

Other ICSU:

• Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (of IAMAS)
  
• Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), Member of Working Groups on The Ocean as a Source and Sink for Atmospheric Constituents (No. 72) and Oceanic CO2 Measurements (No. 75)
  
• Scientific Committee for International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP)
  
• Joint Scientific Committee for World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

NATO Science Committee:

• Co-Director of Advanced Study Institute on Air-Sea Exchange of Gases and Particles (1982)

U.S. National Science Foundation:

• Principal Investigator on Sea-Air Exchange (SEAREX) Program
  
• Member various review/evaluation committees

Europe:

• Member of the Council of the European Environmental Research Organisation
  
• Member International Advisory Committee for Kiel Oceanographic Institute and Max-Planck Environmental Institutes in Hamburg, Mainz and Jena
  
• Co-ordinator for EUROTRAC sub-project ‘Air-Sea Exchange’ (ASE)
  
• Chair, European Research Council Earth System Science Advanced Grants awards committee
  
• Chair, COST Action 735

Editorial Boards:

• Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry
  
• Tellus B
  
• Journal of Environmental Monitoring
  
• Aquatic Sciences
  
• Global Environmental Research
  
• Indian Journal of Marine Sciences
  
• Environmental Research Letters

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Fellow of the Royal Society (2008)
  
• Commander of the British Empire (CBE, 2008)
  
• Royal Society, John Murray Travelling Studentship (1972)
  
• Guest Professor, Ocean University of Qingdao, China
  
• 1st Recipient Challenger Society Medal (2000)
  
• Plymouth Marine Sciences Medallist (1992)
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry Distinguished Lecturer (2002)
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry, John Jeyes Medallist and Lecturer (2003)
  
• Fellow of the Geological Society
  
• Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology