A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in Marine SciencePast Recipient, Dr. Nick Shackleton (1990) |
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Dr.
Nick Shackleton is the thirteenth
recipient of the award, and is being
recognized for his fundamental
contributions in the division of marine
geosciences. Dr. Shackleton is reader at
the University of Cambridge, director of
the sub-department of Quaternary Research
(Cambridge), Official Fellow of Clare
Hall (Cambridge), and Senior Research
Associate of Lamont-Doherty Institute
(USA). He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of London (1985), and of the
American Geophysical Union (1990), and
has been the recipient of a number of
scientific awards. Dr. Shackleton's
research for much of the past two years
has focused on detailed oxygen isotope
records in the Panama Basin (ODP Site
677). The reason for devoting so much
time to this particular site is that it
has proved a unique opportunity to test
the Milankovitch theory over the whole
Pleistocene and the late part of the
Pliocene - unique in the amount of detail
preserved, in the types of information
available, and in the long uninterrupted
time-span represented. This is making it
possible to calibrate the geological
timescale and, among other things, learn
more about the workings of the global
climate system. Dr. Shackleton is
receiving the Huntsman Medal in
recognition of his innovative work on
paleoceanography and the development of
oxygen isotopic stratigraphy. 