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)