Thomas J. Crowley#


Thomas J. Crowley
Membership Number:2114
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES
Elected:2001
Main Country of Residence:UNITED KINGDOM
Homepage(s):http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/tcrowley





Present and Previous Positions

  • since 2007 School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Professor of Geosciences and Director, Scottish Alliance for Geosciences and the Environment (SAGES)
  • 2001-200Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Nicholas Professor of Earth Systems Science
  • 1996-2001 Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Professor of Oceanography and Deputy Director, Texas Center for Climate Studies
  • 1986-198 7NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, National Research Council Fellow
  • 1983-1986 Climate Dynamics Program, National Science Foundation, Director, July 1983 to January 1986.

Fields of Scholarship
  • History and modeling of past climates
  • Effect of climate change on the biosphere
  • Past carbon-cycle variations
  • Utilization of paleoclimate data to validate climate models and as a reference scale for future climate change projections
  • Pleistocene oceanography
  • Decadal-centennial scale climate variability
  • Climate projections for nuclear waste disposal site
  • Late Holocene volcanism
  • Effect of sea level rise on coastal processes
  • Societal response to global warming

Honours and Awards
  • National Research Council senior fellowship, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (1986)
  • Texas A&M University Association of Former Students Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in Research (2001)
  • Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (2001)
  • Richard F. Flint lecturer, Yale University (2001)
  • Nicholas Professor of Earth System Sciences, Duke University (2001)
  • Eminent Lecture Series, Univ. of South Florida School of Marine Sciences (2005)
  • H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2005)


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