Philip Jones#
| Membership Number: | 1785 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1998 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.uea.ac.uk/environmental-sciences/people/profile/p-jones |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 Professor and Director, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 1998 - 2004 Professor and Director of External Affairs, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 1994 - 1998 Reader, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- 1976 - 1994 Senior Research Associate, Climatic Research Unit, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Fields of Scholarship
- Climate science
- Instrumental climate records
- Paleoclimatology
- Climate projections
Honours and Awards
- Hugh Robert Mill medal from the Royal Meteorological Society for work on UK Rainfall Variability (1995)
- Outstanding Scientific Paper Award from NOAA/ERL for Research Paper, ‘A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere’, Nature, 382, 39-46 in 1996. (1997)
- Norbert Gerbier – Mumm International Award for Research Paper, ‘A search for human influences on the thermal structure of the atmosphere’, Nature 382, 39-46 in 1996. (1998)
- Hans Oeschger medal from the European Geophysical Society for work in paleoclimatology (2002)
- International Journal of Climatology prize of the Royal Meteorological Society for papers published in the past five years in the International Journal of Climatology (2002)
- Recognised as one of the top 0.5% of highly-cited researchers in the Geosciences field by the ISI (the institute in the US that maintains the Web of Science, where publications and citations are monitored) (2002)
- Editor’s award from Geophysical Research Letters for conscientious and constructive reviewing (2006)
- Asked to send details to appear in Who’s Who (2006)
- Awarded a fellowship of the American Meteorological Society (2007)
- Jointly received with many others (for IPCC work) the Nobel Peace Prize (2007)
- Awarded a fellowship by the American Geophysical Union (2009)
