EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award

The Britisch scientist Timothy M. Lenton has won the prestigious EGU Outstanding Young Scientist Award for an original and new systems perspective, based on biogeosciences, on the history of our planet.
   
The Outstanding Young Scientist Award recognizes scientific achievements in any field of the Geosciences, made by a scientist who is under the age of 35 on 31 December of the year of the General Assembly .

Tim Lenton is working at the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Lenton is Reader in Earth System Analysis and working with the Earth System Modelling Group.

Resumé

Timothy M. Lenton has been at the forefront of the research that considers the Earth, including its climate and biological life, as a single very strongly coupled system. He has developed the Gaia theory of James Lovelock, often much criticised by evolutionary biologists, and reconciled it with the theory of natural selection. This work has led to a new, systems perspective on the history of our planet. He has developed a range of relatively simple models that capture aspects of the behaviour of the Earth system on various long time-scales. He is currently adapting one of these models to the latest computer grid technology so that it can be used in major new projects on variability and change in the past and in the future.

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