Robert Stephen John Sparks

Steve Sparks
Born	15 May 1949 Harpenden, England
Institutions	University of Bristol
Alma mater	Imperial College
Doctoral advisor	George P. L. Walker
Notable awards	Bigsby Medal (1985) Murchison Medal (1998) Thorarinsson Medal (2008) Wollaston Medal (2011) Vetlesen Prize (2015)

Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE (b. 15 May 1949), is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is one of the world's leading volcanologists and has been widely recognised for his work in this field.

Career

Steve Sparks^[1] is a graduate of Imperial College, where he first completed a B.Sc. (1971), and then a PhD (1974) under the supervision of George P. L. Walker. He was subsequently a Research Fellow at Lancaster University (1976–1978), a NATO postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate school of oceanography, University of Rhode Island, USA (1976–1978), and then lecturer at University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences (1978–1989), where he was also a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He took up the Chaning Wills Chair of Geology at the University of Bristol in 1989. Steve has held a number of distinguished visiting positions at other universities, including a period as Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at California Institute of Technology in 1987, and as an Edward Bass Scholar^[2] at Yale University (2006–2007).

Steve Sparks has been hugely influential in the fields of both volcanology and igneous petrology. He has published over 300 papers, which have been cited more than 10,000 times, and is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.^[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 1998.

Steve Sparks has a distinguished record of service to the geological community. He was President of the Geological Society of London from 1994–1996,^[4] President of IAVCEI from 1999–2003,^[5] and is President-elect of the VGP section of the American Geophysical Union for 2009. Steve Sparks was chair of the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise Panel for Earth Sciences.^[6]

He became chair of ACME in 2012.

External links

Steve Sparks' webpage at the University of Bristol

References

↑ http://www.agu.org/inside/biography.php?memberid=74 Retrieved on 2009-05-14
↑ http://www.yale.edu/yibs/sparks.html Retrieved 2009-05-15
↑ http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Search&link2=Search%20Results&AuthLastName=sparks&AuthFirstName=&AuthMiddleName=&AuthMailnstName=&CountryID=-1&DisciplineID=0&id=1150 Retrieved on 2009-05-14
↑ http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/info/collections/archives/page759.html Retrieved on 2009-05-14
↑ http://www.iavcei.org/IAVCEI.htm
↑ http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2007/03/ Retrieved 2009-05-15

IAVCEI

International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior

Presidents	A. Riccò A. Lacroix A. Malladra C. A. Ktenas A. Michel-Levy G. B. Escher A. Rittmann H. Kuno G. A. MacDonald G. S. Gorshkov R. W. Decker S. A. Fedotov I. G. Gass S. Aramaki P. Gasparini G. Heiken R. S. J. Sparks O. Navon S. Nakada R. Cas

Secretary Generals	A. Malladra F. Signore F. Penta P. Evrard P. E. Baker H. U. Schmincke R. W. Johnson S. R. McNutt J. Marti

Presidents of the Geological Society of London

19th century	George Bellas Greenough Henry Grey Bennet William Blake John MacCulloch George Bellas Greenough Earl Compton William Babington William Buckland John Bostock William Fitton Adam Sedgwick Roderick Murchison George Bellas Greenough Charles Lyell William Whewell William Buckland Roderick Murchison Henry Warburton Leonard Horner Henry De la Beche Charles Lyell William Hopkins Edward Forbes William Hamilton Daniel Sharpe Joseph Ellison Portlock John Phillips Leonard Horner Andrew Crombie Ramsay William Hamilton Warington Wilkinson Smyth Thomas Henry Huxley Joseph Prestwich George Douglas Campbell John Evans Peter Martin Duncan Henry Clifton Sorby Robert Etheridge John Whitaker Hulke Thomas Bonney John Wesley Judd William Blanford Archibald Geikie Wilfred Hudleston Henry Woodward Henry Hicks William Whitaker

20th century	Jethro Teall Charles Lapworth John Marr Archibald Geikie William Sollas William Watts Aubrey Strahan Arthur Smith Woodward Alfred Harker George Lamplugh Richard Oldham Albert Seward John Evans Francis Bather John Gregory Edmund Garwood Thomas Holland John Green Owen Thomas Jones Henry Hurd Swinnerton Percy Boswell Herbert Leader Hawkins William Fearnsides Arthur Trueman Herbert Harold Read Cecil Tilley Owen Thomas Jones George Lees William King Walter Campbell Smith Leonard Hawkes James Stubblefield Sydney Hollingworth Oliver Bulman Frederick Shotton Kingsley Dunham Thomas Neville George William Alexander Deer Thomas Westoll Percy Kent Wallace Pitcher Percival Allen Howel Francis Janet Watson Charles Holland Bernard Leake Derek Blundell Anthony Harris Charles Curtis R. S. J. Sparks Richard Hardman Robin Cocks

21st century	Ronald Oxburgh Mark Moody-Stuart Peter Styles Richard Fortey Lynne Frostick

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 54300609 LCCN: n81073312 ISNI: 0000 0000 8383 5425 GND: 1055799788 SUDOC: 085685135 BNF: cb13491806n (data)

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