Geoffrey Boulton

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Geoffrey Stewart Boulton (born 28 November 1940) is a British geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh. [1] He was awarded the 2006 Lyell Medal, by the Geological Society. [2] He was awarded the 2011 James Croll Medal. [3] He was awarded the Seligman Crystal [4] by the International Glaciological Society in 2001. Between 2007 and 2011 he was General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he has been a Fellow since 1989. [5] He was elected to membership of the Academia Europaea in 2022 [6]

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Life

A member of the Independent Climate Change Email Review Commission, [7] and held the role of lecturer at the University of East Anglia from 1968 to 1986.

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