Peter Liss#
| Membership Number: | 3369 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - 2010 Acting Director, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia
- Summers 1989 and 1990 Visiting Scientist, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- September - October 1982 Visiting Scientist CSIRO Atmospheric Science Division, Aspendale, Australia
- 1979 - 1983 Half-time Scientific Advisor, Environmental Studies Section, U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, London
- June-December 1977 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
- January - June 1975 Visiting research scientist Ocean Chemistry Laboratories, Department of the Environment, Victoria, B.C., Canada
- Summers 1972 and 1973 Visiting research scientist Scripps Institution, UCSD, U.S.A.
- 1969 - 1977, Lecturer; 1977-1985, Reader; 1985-present, Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Fields of Scholarship
- Biogeochemistry
- Ocean chemistry
- Ocean/Atmosphere interactions
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study Project (SOLAS) for his "founding role, leadership, inspiration, and sustained contributions to the first two decades of SOLAS, and the resulting global expansion of air-sea interaction research"
- 2003/2004 John Jeyes Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2000 1st Recipient Challenger Society Medal
- 1992 Plymouth Marine Sciences Medallist
- 2008 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2008 Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1972 Royal Society, John Murray Travelling Studentship
- 2002 Royal Society of Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry Distinguished Lecturer
- 2003 Royal Society of Chemistry, John Jeyes Medallist and Lecturer
- Fellow of the Geological Society
- Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
