Shackleton, Sir Nicholas John

Shackleton, Sir Nicholas John
▪ 2007

      British geologist (b. June 23, 1937, London, Eng.—d. Jan. 24, 2006, Cambridge, Eng.), was a pioneer in the study of paleoclimatology and in the understanding of the mechanisms behind global warming. Shackleton was an expert in paleoceanography, the analysis of the composition of tiny marine fossils in ocean sediments as a way of learning about the climate conditions that prevailed when the organisms were alive. He also ascertained how changes in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect the warming and cooling of the Earth. In 1976 he and two colleagues, James Hays of Columbia University, New York City, and John Imbrie of Brown University, Providence, R.I., demonstrated that over the past one million years, regular variations in the Earth's orbit around the Sun caused changes in the Earth's climate, including the periodic occurrence of ice ages. Shackleton studied at the University of Cambridge (B.A., 1961; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., 1967) and remained at Cambridge throughout his career. From 1995 until his retirement in 2004, he was director of the university's Godwin Institute of Quaternary Research. Shackleton's many honours included the Royal Swedish Academy's Crafoord Prize (1995) and Columbia University's Vetlesen Prize (2004). He was elected to the Royal Society in 1985 and was knighted in 1998.

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