doctoral_advisor thesis_year birth_place citizenship thesis_title awards nationality fields workplaces birth_date residence image article_title name alma_mater
m.j.s. rudwick 1968 england british , australian the functional morphology of bivalved mollusca hochstetter 1975 -rrb- , honorary fellow , royal society of new lecturer zealand -lrb- 1997 -rrb- , geological society of new zealand -lrb- english earth science , geology , paleontology university cook university of otago , university of adelaide , james 1942 england , new zealand , australia bob_carter_portrait . jpg robert m. carter
 robert m. carter university of otago , university of cambridge
robert m. carter

robert merlin `` bob '' carter is a palaeontologist , stratigrapher and marine geologist who is perhaps best known as a prominent australian climate change skeptic .
he was professor and head of the school of earth sciences at james cook university from 1981 to 1998 .
