Facts: - residence: united kingdom - thesis url: http://ethos.bl.uk/orderdetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.461182 - fields: climatology , paleoclimatology - thesis year: 1977 - workplaces: university of east anglia - awards: hans 2007 -rrb- agu fellow -lrb- 2009 -rrb- oeschger medal -lrb- 2002 -rrb- ams fellow -lrb- - birth date: 22 april 1952 - thesis title: a river regulation with particular reference to the river tyne spatially distributed catchment model for flood forecasting and - name: phil d. jones - nationality: british - birth place: redhill , surrey - alma mater: lancaster university university of newcastle upon tyne Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of phil jones -lrb- climatologist -rrb- .
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philip douglas jones -lrb- born april 22 , 1952 -rrb- is the director of the climatic research unit -lrb- cru -rrb- and a professor in the school of environmental sciences at the university of east anglia .his research interests include instrumental climate change , palaeoclimatology , detection of climate change and the extension of riverflow records in the uk .he has also published papers on the temperature record of the past 1000 years .he is known for maintaining a time series of the instrumental temperature record .this work was featured prominently in both the 2001 and 2007 ipcc reports , where he was a contributing author to chapter 12 , '' detection of climate change and attribution of causes '' , of the third assessment report and a coordinating lead author of chapter 3 , '' observations : surface and atmospheric climate change '' , of the ar4 .