Colin Prentice

Colin Prentice
FRS
Born Iain Colin Prentice
1952 (age 65–66)
Education University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis Studies on moden pollen spectra
Website www.imperial.ac.uk/people/c.prentice

(Iain) Colin Prentice FRS (born 1952) [2] holds the AXA Chair in Biosphere and Climate Impacts at Imperial College London and an Honorary Chair in Ecology and Evolution at Macquarie University in Australia.[1][3][4]

Education

Prentice was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied the Natural Sciences Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1973[3] followed by a PhD in Botany in 1977 for studies on pollen spectra.[5]

Career and research

Prentice has held academic and research leadership appointments in several countries, including the chair of plant ecology at Lund University and a founding directorship of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.[2] He led the research programme quantifying and understanding the earth system for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).[2] He developed the standard model for pollen source area, popularized now widely used techniques to analyse species composition along environmental gradients, and led the international development of successive generations of large-scale ecosystem models – from equilibrium biogeography (BIOME) to coupled biogeochemistry and vegetation dynamics (LPJ).[2] As of 2018 his research applies eco-evolutionary optimality concepts to develop and test new quantitative theory for plant and ecosystem function and land-atmosphere exchanges of energy, water and carbon dioxide, with the goal of more robust and reliable numerical modelling of land processes in the earth system science.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Colin Prentice publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Anon (2018). "Professor Iain Colin Prentice FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  3. 1 2 "Home - Professor Iain Colin Prentice". www.imperial.ac.uk.
  4. ↑ Foley, J. A. (2005). "Global Consequences of Land Use". Science. 309 (5734): 570–574. doi:10.1126/science.1111772. ISSN 0036-8075.
  5. ↑ Prentice, Iain Colin (1977). Studies on modern pollen spectra. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). Cambridge University. OCLC 500543790. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.469526.

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