John T. Andrews (geologist)
John T. Andrews (born November 8, 1937 in Millom , Cumbria ) is a British geologist and Arctic explorer .
Andrews studied at the University of Nottingham with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and at McGill University with a master's degree in 1961. He then carried out research for the Canadian government until 1968. In 1965 he received his doctorate from the University of Nottingham. In 1968 he became associate professor and in 1972 professor at the University of Colorado , where he retired in 2003. He then worked at the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado.
He deals with glacial marine processes in the Arctic (especially Iceland, Greenland, Northeast Canada), paleoceanography of the Arctic and the development of large ice sheets in the Quaternary, and examined Heinrich events and other abrupt events, including sediments from Baffin Bay and Labrador -See in high resolution, for example with X-ray diffraction.
He is an associate editor of The Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews, and the Journal of Quaternary Research.
In 2016 he received the Penrose Medal . He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the Geological Association of Canada , the Arctic Institute of North America , the American Geophysical Union, and the Geological Society of America . He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences .
In 1978 he received an honorary doctorate (D.Sc.) from the University of Nottingham .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Abrupt changes (Heinrich events) in late Quaternary North Atlantic marine envrionments: a history and review of data and concepts, Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 13, 1998, pp. 3-16
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| SURNAME | Andrews, John T. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geologist and arctic explorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Millom , Cumbria |