Mark Andrew Maslin is a professor of
Earth System Science at the
University College London and the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He has published numerous books on a variety of environmental topics including
climate change,
ecology, the
anthropocene and human evolution. His scientific work consists of more than 200 publications, which have received approximately 32,500 citations according to
GoogleScholar. He is joint
Pro-Vice-Provost of the UCL Climate Crisis Grand Challenge. He is also Strategy Advisor to Lansons, Net Zero Now, Sheep Inc and CSR Board member of Sopra Steria. He co-founded and helped to run the AI geoanalytics company Rezatec Ltd from 2012 to 2023.
Education
Maslin was born in 1968. He received his
BSc (Hons) in Physical Geography (including Geology and Chemistry at honours level) from the
University of Bristol in 1989. A few years later, in 1993 he attained his
PhD for "The study of the palaeoceanography of the N.E. Atlantic during Pleistocene" from the
Darwin College,
University of Cambridge, having
Nicholas Shackleton and
Ellen Thomas as his supervisors.[1]
Scientific work
Maslin has published over 200 scientific papers,[2][3] some of them on journals such as
Nature,[4] having received approximately 25,000 citations according to ResearchGate[5] and more than 32,500 according to
Google Scholar, where his
h-index is given to be 75 and an i10 index of 188.[6]
From 2014 to 2019 he was Director of The London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership.[1] He also is the co-founder of Rezatec Ltd.[9]
Notable views
The Spanish and Portuguese colonisation of the Americas led to the death of 56 million people, approximately 90% of the indigenous population, in less than 100 years. This was because the indigenous population has no natural immunity to the diseases brought across the Atlantic Ocean. The population collapse led to the collapse of most of the agriculture and infrastructure.[10]: 3 According to research by Alex Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis, the global temperature decrease between 1550 and 1700 as forest regeneration resulted in additional
carbon sequestration.[10]: 3 Describing this decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide as the orbis spike, Maslin and Lewis state that the event could be viewed as the beginning of the
Anthropocene.[11]