Peter J. Cook

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Peter J. Cook (born October 15, 1938 ) is a British-Australian geologist.

Life

Cook received his PhD from Cambridge University . In 1960 he led the University of Durham's Spitzbergen expedition. From 1961 he worked at the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics (BMR) of Australia, interrupted by his participation in the Australian Antarctic expedition in 1964/65. In 1969 he became Senior Scientist in the Department of Phosphates and Marine Geology at the BMR. From 1976 to 1982 he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University . From 1982 he was a senior scientist in the Continental Geology department of the BMR and from 1989 to 1990 deputy director of the BMR. From 1990 to 1998 he was director of the British Geological Survey. From 1998 to 2003 he was Executive Director of the Australian Petroleum Cooperative Research Center (APCRC). He was the section head and assistant director of the Australian Geological Survey.

Cook was among other things visiting scholar at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii (1979) and visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg.

Act

From the late 1990s Cook was concerned with the possibilities of geological storage of carbon dioxide. He has been Chief Executive of Innovative Carbon Technologies since 2003 and has also been a Director of PJC International since 1998 and MineXchange in 2000. He was one of the coordinating lead authors of the IPCC special report on the capture and storage of CO 2 (2005).

He studies the geology of Australia, petroleum geology and the geology of reservoirs both on land and offshore.

Memberships and honors

Cook is CBE . In 2004 he received the Leopold von Buch plaque , in 1997 the Cope Medal of the Geological Society of London , in 2001 the Australian Public Service Medal and in 2003 the Australian Centenary Medal. In 2004 he received the Lewis G. Weeks Gold Medal from the Australian Petroleum Exploration Association.

He is a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of Australia, of which he was chairman in 1972/73, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists .

Fonts

  • Clean energy, climate and carbon , CRC Press 2012
  • with W. Mayo Geochemistry of a tropical estuary and its catchment-Broad Sound, Queensland , Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1980
  • Sedimentology and Holocene History of a Tropical Estuary , Australian Government Publishing Service, Bulletin BMR, No. 170, 1977
  • Editor Phosphate Deposits of the World , Cambridge University Press, 3 volumes, 1986
  • with JH Shergold (Editor) Proterozoic-Cambrian Phosphorites , Australian National University Press 1979
  • Australia: Evolution of a Continent , BMR Palaeogeographic Group, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra 1990
  • Editor with Chris M. Carleton Continental Shelf Limits: the scientific and legal interface , Oxford University Press 2000
  • with others: IPCC Special Volume: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage 2005 (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Bradshaw, Cook Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide , Environmental Geosciences, Volume 8, 2001, pp. 149-151
  2. ↑ https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_annex4-1.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Peter J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Australian geologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1938