# Mark Maslin

Mark Andrew Maslin (born 1968) 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. 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.

## Scientific work

Maslin has published over 200 scientific papers, some of them on journals such as Nature, having received approximately 25,000 citations according to ResearchGate and more than 32,500 according to Google Scholar, where his h-index is given to be 75 and an i10 index of 188.
Maslin teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University College London and has supervised many PhD and MSc dissertations.
From 2014 to 2019, he was Director of The London NERC Doctoral Training Partnership. He also is the co-founder of Rezatec Ltd.

### 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.$^{:3}$ 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.$^{:3}$ 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.

### Science communication

In the context of science communication, he has appeared on such shows as Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time and David Attenborough's Climate Change – The Facts, at Talks at Google, on BBC's Newshour, on Channel 4's Dispatches et al. Furthermore, he has written numerous books concerning environmental matters and has authored articles on such topics for The Conversation, The Guardian, The New York Times and other media.

## Books

* Mark Maslin (2021), How to Save Our Planet: The Facts, Penguin Life, ISBN 9780241472521
* Mark Maslin (2021), Climate Change, A Very Short Introduction, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198867869
* Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin (2018), The Human Planet, Pelican Press, ISBN 0241280885, 978-0241280881
* Mark Maslin (2017), The Cradle of Humanity, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780198704522
* Mark Maslin (2014), Climate Change, A Very Short Introduction, 3rd Edition, Oxford University Press
* Mark Maslin (2013), Climate, A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press
* Mark Maslin (2008), Global Warming, A Very Short Introduction: 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press
* Mark Maslin (2004), Global Warming, A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press
* Mark Maslin (2003), Etat d'urgence: Le ciel en colère, Solar ISBN 2263036229, 978-2263036224
* Mark Maslin (2002), Stormy Weather, Apple Press, ISBN 1-84092-378-4
* Mark Maslin (2002), The Coming Storm, Barron's Educational Series, ISBN 0-7641-2219-3
* Mark Maslin (2002), Global Warming, Colin Baxter Photography, UK, ISBN 1-84107-120-X
* Mark Maslin (2002), Global Warming: Causes, Effects and the Future, Voyageur Press, USA, ISBN 0760329656, 9780760329658
* Mark Maslin (2000), Earthquakes (a volume for 8-12 year olds), Wayland, Hove, UK. Hardback (ISBN 0 7502 2472 X) (1999), Paperback (ISBN 0-7502-2738-9)
* Mark Maslin (2000), Storms (a volume for 8-12 year olds), Wayland, Hove, UK. Hardback (ISBN 0 7502 2474 6) (1999), Paperback (ISBN 0-7502-2740-0)
* Emma Durham and Mark Maslin (2000), Floods, Wayland, Hove, UK. Hardback (ISBN 0 7502 2473 8) (1999), Paperback (ISBN 0-7502-2739-7)