Department:Geography
Telephone number:020 7679 0556
Email:m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography:
Mark Maslinis a Professor ofEarth System Scienceat. Maslin is a leading scientist with particularexpertise in understanding theAnthropoceneand how it relates to the major challenges facing humanity in the 21stcentury.Hehas publish over 165papers in journals such asScience,Nature,and The Lancet,with a current citation count according to Google Scholar over17,500(H=64and i10 index=159) with 38papers that have been cited over 100 times.He haswritten11books, over50popular articlesand appears regularlyon radio and television.His books include the high successful ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ (OUP, 2014 and 21), The Cradle of Humanity (OUP, 2017 and 19) and The Human Planet: How we created theAnthropoceneco-authored with Simon Lewis (Penguin, 2018).He was included in Who’s Who for the first time in 2009 and was granted a Royal SocietyWolfsonResearch MeritScholarshipin 2011.
Research Projects:
Articles
- Mark Maslinand Simon Lewis “”The Conversation(2020)
- Alex Koch, ChrisBrierley,Mark Maslinand Simon Lewis “”The Conversation(2019)
- Alex Koch, ChrisBrierley,Mark Maslinand Simon Lewis“”The Conversation(2019)
- Mark MaslinandSimon Lewis“”New Scientist(2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“” El Salto (2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“Are we living in theAnthropoceneorCapitalocene?Red Pepper(2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“”The Telegraph(2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“”Ecologist(2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“”Guardian(2018)
- Simon Lewis andMark Maslin“”BBC News website(2018)
- Mark MaslinandErleEllis“”The Conversation(2016)
- Simon L. Lewis andMark Maslin‘’ (2015)
Publications:
Koch, A., C.Brierley,M. A. Maslin, S. L. Lewis“Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492.Quaternary ScienceReviews, 207,13-36(2019)
Simon L. Lewis andMark Maslin(2018) The Human Planet: How we caused theAnthropocene, Penguin (Pelican print) ISBN 978-0-241-28088-1, p465
Turney, C.S.M. J. Palmer,M. Maslinet al. “Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of theAnthropoceneEpoch in 1965”Nature Scientific Reports,volume 8, Article number: 3293 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5
Ellis, E.,M. Maslin,N.Boivin, A. Bauer.“Involve social scientists in definingAnthropocene:Invited Commentary”Nature540, 192-193(2016)
Barry,A.andM.A. Maslin,“The Politicsof theAnthropocene: a dialogue”Geo: Geography and EnvironmentDOI: 10.1002/geo2.22(2016)
Lewis, S.L.andM.A. Maslin, “Defining theAnthropocene”Nature519,171-180(2015)doi:10.1038/nature14258
Lewis, S.L.andM.A. Maslin, “A transparent framework for defining theAnthropoceneEpoch”TheAnthropoceneReviewvol. 2,no. 2,128-146(2015). doi: 10.1177/2053019615588792
Maslin, M.A.and S.L. Lewis “Anthropocene: Earth system, geological, philosophical and political paradigm shifts”,TheAnthropoceneReviewvol. 2, no. 2,108-116(2015). doi: 10.1177/2053019615588791
Teaching:
First year: GEOG0008: Environmental Change
Masters: GEOG0120: Past Climates