Tim Lenton

Timothy Michael "Tim" Lenton is a climate change and Earth system scientist at the University of Exeter . Lenton's recent work focuses on understanding past revolutions of the Earth system , developing an evolutionary model of the marine ecosystem, and providing early warning of tipping elements in the Earth system .

Live and act

Lenton received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge. After reading James Lovelock's books on the Gaia hypothesis , he became aware of the importance of considering the earth as a whole. This led, under the supervision of Andrew Watson at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and later at the University of East Anglia (UEA), to his doctoral thesis on the regulation of the nutrient balance of the ocean and the oxygen content of the atmosphere. After completing his PhD, Lenton worked at the Center for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh, where he developed a simple coupled carbon cycle and climate model and then coordinated the development of the GENIE family of Earth system models. In 2004 he returned to the UEA and set up a working group for Earth system modeling. Lenton dealt with key events in the coupled evolution of life and the planet, including man-made global change. He published a book about it with Andrew Watson called Revolutions that made the Earth (2011). Lenton moved to the University of Exeter in 2011 .

Lenton is a member of the Linnean Society of London and a member of the Geological Society of London . Its h-index is 67 (as of December 2019).

Publications (selection)

Books

Timothy M. Lenton, AJ Watson: Revolutions that made the Earth . Oxford University Press 2011.

Journal articles

Chi Xu et al .: Future of the human climate niche . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 2020, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1910114117 .
Will Steffen et al .: Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 115 , no. 33 , 2018, p. 8252-8259 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1810141115 .
Timothy M. Lenton et al: Earliest land plants created modern levels of atmospheric oxygen . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 113 , no. 35 , 2016, p. 9704-9709 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.1604787113 .
Marten Scheffer et al .: Anticipating Critical Transitions . In: Science . tape 338 , no. 6105 , 2012, p. 344-348 , doi : 10.1126 / science.1225244 .
Timothy M. Lenton: Early warning of climate tipping points . In: Nature Climate Change . tape 1 , 2011, p. 201-209 , doi : 10.1038 / nclimate1143 .
Johan Rockström et al .: A safe operating space for humanity . In: Nature . tape 461 , 2009, p. 472-475 , doi : 10.1038 / 461472a .
Timothy M. Lenton et al .: Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system . In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . tape 105 , no. 6 , 2008, p. 1786-1793 , doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0705414105 .

Awards (selection)

Philip Leverhulme Prize (2004)
Award as outstanding young scientist from the European Geosciences Union (2006)
Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year (2008)

Web links

Profile on Google Scholar

credentials

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ University of Exeter: Tim Lenton . Retrieved December 13, 2019.
↑ Timothy Lenton. Google Scholar . Retrieved December 13, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Lenton, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lenton, Timothy Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Climate change and earth systems scientist at the University of Exeter
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century

[Exeter-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ University of Exeter: Tim Lenton . Retrieved December 13, 2019.

[2] Timothy Lenton. Google Scholar . Retrieved December 13, 2019.