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Department: Geography
Telephone number: 020 7679 0556
Email: m.maslin@ucl.ac.uk
UCL Website: Professor Mark Maslin
Biography:
Mark Maslin is a Professor of Earth System Science at UCL. Maslin is a leading scientist with particular expertise in understanding the Anthropocene and how it relates to the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. He has publish over 165 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and The Lancet, with a current citation count according to Google Scholar over 17,500 (H=64 and i10 index=159) with 38 papers that have been cited over 100 times. He has written 11 books, over 50 popular articles and appears regularly on radio and television. His books include the high successful ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ (OUP, 2014 and 21), The Cradle of Humanity (OUP, 2017 and 19) and The Human Planet: How we created the Anthropocene co-authored with Simon Lewis (Penguin, 2018). He was included in Who’s Who for the first time in 2009 and was granted a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Scholarship in 2011.
Research Projects:
Articles
- Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis “Why the Anthropocene began with European colonisation, mass slavery and the ‘great dying’ of the 16th century” The Conversation (2020)
- Alex Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis “European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling” The Conversation (2019)
- Alex Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis “La colonización de América acabó con el 10% de la población mundial y provocó un enfriamiento global” The Conversation (2019)
- Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis “If we’re in the Meghalayan, whatever happened to the Anthropocene?” New Scientist (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “Cómo salvar una Tierra abrasada” El Salto (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “Are we living in the Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Red Pepper (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “Action not argument needed to halt climate change” The Telegraph (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “There is a simple blueprint for survival - Universal Basic Income and Half Earth” Ecologist (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “Universal basic income and rewilding can meet Anthropocene demands” Guardian (2018)
- Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin “A manifesto to save Planet Earth (and ourselves)” BBC News website (2018)
- Mark Maslin and Erle Ellis “Scientists still don’t understand the Anthropocene – and they’re going about it the wrong way” The Conversation (2016)
- Simon L. Lewis and Mark Maslin ‘Anthropocene began with species exchange between Old and New Worlds’ (2015)
Publications:
Koch, A., C. Brierley, M. A. Maslin, S. L. Lewis “Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492. Quaternary Science Reviews, 207, 13-36 (2019)
Simon L. Lewis and Mark Maslin (2018) The Human Planet: How we caused the Anthropocene, Penguin (Pelican print) ISBN 978-0-241-28088-1, p465
Turney, C.S.M. J. Palmer, M. Maslin et al. “Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965” Nature Scientific Reports, volume 8, Article number: 3293 (2018) doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20970-5
Ellis, E., M. Maslin, N. Boivin, A. Bauer. “Involve social scientists in defining Anthropocene: Invited Commentary” Nature 540, 192-193 (2016)
Barry, A. and M.A. Maslin, “The Politics of the Anthropocene: a dialogue” Geo: Geography and Environment DOI: 10.1002/geo2.22 (2016)
Lewis, S.L. and M.A. Maslin, “Defining the Anthropocene” Nature 519, 171-180 (2015) doi:10.1038/nature14258
Lewis, S.L. and M.A. Maslin, “A transparent framework for defining the Anthropocene Epoch” The Anthropocene Review vol. 2, no. 2, 128-146 (2015). doi: 10.1177/2053019615588792
Maslin, M.A. and S.L. Lewis “Anthropocene: Earth system, geological, philosophical and political paradigm shifts”, The Anthropocene Review vol. 2, no. 2,108-116 (2015). doi: 10.1177/2053019615588791
Teaching:
First year: GEOG0008: Environmental Change
Masters: GEOG0120: Past Climates
