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NICHOLAS
SHACKLETON (1990)
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.
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