!!!Robert Stephen John Sparks
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2009 - 2012:  Director of Bristol Environmental Risk Research Centre: BRISK 
* 1989 - present:  Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK  (1989-1994 Head of Department; 1998-2003 NERC Research Professorship; 1996-2008 Director of Research Centre Environmental & Geophysical Flows)
* 1996-1998:  Chief Scientist (one of 5) at Montserrat Volcano Observatory 
* 1982-1989:  University Lecturer in Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
* 1978-1982:  University Demonstrator in igneous petrology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK
* 1976:  NATO Research Fellowship at Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA
* 1974:  Research Fellowship (Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851) at Department of Environmental Sciences, Lancaster University, UK
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*2011  Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London 
*2010  Joseph Preistley Award 2010 (Dickenson College, Pennsylvania, USA)
*2010  Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
*2008  Thorarinsson Medal of IAVCEI 
*2008-2012  President-elect and then President of Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology (VGP) of American Geophysical Union
*2006  Science Award of the Chiba University, Japan
*2005 Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) Institute de Physique de Globe de Paris, Université de Paris
*2004  Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Geosciences Union 
*2002-2007 Royal Society - Wolfson Merit Award
*2002-2005 Honorary Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum 
*2000 Arthur L. Day Medal of the Geological Society of America 
*2000  Bakerian Lecture of Royal Society 
*2000 Doctor of Science (Honorary) Lancaster University
*2000 Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand, France
*1999-2003 President of International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
*1998 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union 
*1998  Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London 
*1994-1996 President of the Geological Society 
*1993 President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Section C) 
*1988  Fellowship of Royal Society
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Sparks_Robert_Stephen_John/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Sparks_Robert_Stephen_John/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Sparks_Robert_Stephen_John/Highlight]
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[Other information|User/Sparks_Robert_Stephen_John/OtherInformation]
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