Chris Turney

Christian S. M. Turney FRSA FGS FRMetSoc FRGS FHEA is Professor of Climate Change and Earth Science and Director of the Changing Earth Research Centre and the Chronos 14Carbon-Cycle Facility at the University of New South Wales.[1]

Christian Turney
Born1973
CitizenshipBritish and Australian
Alma materUniversity of East Anglia
Royal Holloway, University of London
AwardsFrederick White Prize (2014)
Australian Laureate Fellowship (2010)
Bigsby Medal (2009)
Philip Leverhulme Prize (2008)
Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007)
J.G. Russell Award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsEarth Science
Climatology
Geology
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales
University of Exeter
WebsiteChris Turney

Education

Turney was educated at St Bede's School, graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Environmental Science and completed his PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Career and impact

He was previously Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Exeter. He was awarded the J.G. Russell Award (2004) by the Australian Academy of Science, the inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal by the International Union for Quaternary Research in 2007, a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2008, the Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2009, and the Frederick White Prize by the Australian Academy of Science in 2014.[2] In 2010, Turney was awarded a five-year Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. He has published four books[3][4][5][6] and more than 180 scientific research papers.[7]

In 2013−2014, Turney led a privately-funded expedition to the Antarctic called the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, in the "Spirit of Mawson", to investigate environmental changes across the region and communicate the value of scientific research. Scientific findings include the recognition of a 1965 Carbon-14 peak preserved in "the Loneliest Tree in the World" and shrubs growing on Campbell Island, New Zealand, that offer a possible marker for the proposed Anthropocene Epoch in the geological timescale.[8] On the return home, their ice-strengthened vessel became trapped by a substantial breakout of sea ice. His book on the expedition's discoveries and the team's experiences trapped by sea ice were published in Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica.;[9] in Australia and New Zealand, the same book was published under the name of Shackled.[10]

To positively impact climate change, Turney helped to set up a carbon refining company called CarbonScape, which has developed microwave technology to fix carbon from the atmosphere and make a host of green bi-products, including sustainably-produced graphite used in lithium-ion batteries.[11][12]

Publications

Turney has published more than 200 research papers in leading journals,[12] 1 textbook and 3 popular science books, attracting more than 14,000 citations.[11] He has an H-index of 58 on Google Scholar (52 on Scopus and 58 on ResearchGate). These outputs put Turney on the 2018 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher list, representing the 1% most cited scientists in the world. In the last six years, Turney have led Category 1 research projects worth more than $5.5 million (with a career total of $61 million).

Awards
  • Australian Academy of Sciences Frederick Stone Award (2014)
  • Australian Laureate Fellowship (2010)[13]
  • Geological Society of London’s Bigsby Medal (2009)
  • PhilipLevehulme Prize (2008)
  • International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) inaugural Sir Nicholas Shackleton Medal (2007)
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References
  1. "University of New South Wales". University of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  2. "Frederick White Prize winner, 2014". Australian Academy of Science. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. "Bones, Rocks and Stars: the Science of When Things Happened". Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. "Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past". Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  5. "1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica". Text Publishing. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  6. "Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica". Kensington Books. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  7. "Chris Turney Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  8. "Global peak in atmospheric radiocarbon provides a potential definition for the onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965". Scientific Reports. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  9. "Iced In: Ten Days Trapped on the Edge of Antarctica". Kensington Books. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  10. "Shackled". Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  11. "Professor Chris Turney". research.unsw.edu.au. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  12. "Home to Science and Discovery..." www.christurney.com. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  13. "UNSW excels in Laureate awards". University of New South Wales. 6 July 2010. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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