Rick Battarbee, FRS

Education

• BA (Hons): University College London, 1965-1968
• D. Phil: The New University of Ulster, 1968-1971
• D.Sc: The University of London, 1997

Employment

• Royal Society European Research Fellow Institute of Quaternary Geology Uppsala University, Sweden, 1971-1973
• Research Fellow in Environmental Science School of Biol. and Environ. Studies The New University of Ulster, 1973-1976
• Lecturer in Geography, UCL, 1976-1986 Reader in Geography, UCL, 1986-1991
• Professor of Environmental Change and Director of the Environmental Change Research Centre, UCL, 1991 – 2007
• Emeritus Professor of Environmental Change, UCL, 2007-Present

Visiting Research Appointments

• Visiting Docent, Karelian Research Institute, Joensuu, Finland, 1978
• Visiting Research Associate, Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota, USA, 1981-1982

Awards and Medals

• Royal Geographical Society Back Award for acid rain research, 1989
• Elected Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1991
• Rector's Guest and Research Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1994
• Medal of Moscow State University, 1995
• Honorary Professor, Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 2002
• Recognised as a “Pioneer of the Nation” by Queen Elizabeth II, 2003
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2006
• Honorary DSc, University of Ulster, 2007
• Ruth Patrick Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2009
• Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 2010
• Honorary Fellow, University College London, 2011
• Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012
• James Croll Medal, Quaternary Research Association, 2013
• Lifetime Achievement Award, International Paleolimnology Association, 2015
• Honorary DSc, Queens University at Kingston, Canada, 2015
• Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018

• Associate Editor, Journal of Paleolimnology
• Editorial Board, Fennia
• Member, Advisory Board, Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
• IGBP-PAGES Project leader for LIMPACS
• Chairman, ESF Programme " HOLIVAR "
• Member IGBP-PAGES Scientific Steering Committee
• Member IGBP-PAGES Executive Committee
• Member UK IGBP Committee
• Chairman, International Paleolimnology Association 2006-2012
• Member, Royal Society Climate Change Advisory Group 2006-2009
• Member, UK Government, Defra, RoTAP 2008
• Member, Royal Society Global Environment Research Committee 2010-2015
• Member, FBA Council (Royal Society Representative) 2011-2017
• Editor-in-Chief, Biology Letters, 2014 -2018

• Gina Clarke (UCL): 1999-2002 (with Viv Jones)
  • Plantonic diatoms and climate change
• Giri Kattel (ORS): 2000-2003 (with Anson Mackay)
  • Cladocera and climate change in mountain lakes
• Andy Henderson (UCL): 2000-2003 (with Jonathan Holmes)
  • Holocene climate variability in Qinghai-Hu, north-west Tibet
• Tom Davidson (NERC): 2001-2004 (with Carl Sayer and Helen Bennion)
  • Zooplankton in shallow lakes
• Jonathan Tyler (NERC): 2003-2006 (with Viv Jones)
  • Benthic diatoms and biogenic silica isotopes at Lochnagar
• Hong Yang (Dorothy Hodgkin): 2005-2008 (with Roger Flower and Julian Thompson).

• Dong Xuhui (DfeS/CSC): 2006-2009 (with Carl Sayer and Helen Bennion)

• Global change impacts on European freshwater ecosystems – Euro-limpacs.
  Funding Source: EU FP6
  Duration: 1.2.04 – 31.1.09
• Palaeolimnology and shallow lake ecosystem restoration
  Funding Source: Royal Society/Chinese Academy of Sciences Joint Project
  Duration: 1.4.04 – 31.3.07
• Bloomsbury Environmental Isotope Facility.
  Funding Source: SRIF-UCL
  Dates May 2001 - 2003
• Climate variability and surface water acidification in North-west Scotland.
  Funding source: NERC
  Duration: 1.4.01-31.03.03
• Holocene climate variability (HOLIVAR) .
  Funding source: ESF
  Duration: 1.1.01-31.12.05
• Biogenic silica oxygen isotope fractionation in Lochnagar.
  Funding source: NERC (NIGL)
  Duration: 1.7.00-31.3.02
• Academic Links with China Scheme (ALCS).
  Funding Source: British Council
  Dates: 1.6.99-31.5.02
• EMERGE: European mountain lake ecosystems: regionalisation diagnostics & socio-economic evaluation.
  Funding source: EU FPV
  Dates: 1.2.00-31.1.03
• A comparison of biogenic silica oxygen isotope, pollen and diatom records for an Eemian crater-lake sediment sequence
  Funding source: NERC
  Duration 1.7.99-30.6.00