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Chris Bonington

Honorary doctorate from SHU 1998 http://www.shu.ac.uk/hallampeople/honorary/sir-chris-bonington.html Sir Chris was appointed a Trustee of The Outward Bound Trust in 1997. He chairs The Trust's Operational Risk Management Committee. http://www.outwardbound.org.uk/Trust/About/TheTrustees.htm President of the Himalayan Trust UK http://www.himalayantrust.co.uk/our_trustees.phtml Patron of the British Mountaineering Council http://thebmc.co.uk/Pages.aspx?page=98 Awarded Founder's Medal by the Royal Geographic Society 1974 http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/2676C704-4FAF-49CA-BFF3-5DFB68AF5A01/0/MedalWinners19702007.pdf http://www.normanphillips.co.uk/chris_bonington_bio.htm

Iain Stewart

Iain Stewart is a Scottish geologist and UK television presenter

Currently Lecturer in Geodynamics, School of Earth, Ocean & Environmental Sciences at University of Plymouth

Education

He graduated in 1986 with a degree in Geology & Geography from Strathclyde University in Glasgow and moved to the University of Bristol to carry out doctoral research on the geology of earthquakes in Greece and Turkey. After finishing his PhD in 1990, Iain taught geology and earth sciences at Brunel University in west London. He left there in 2002 to take up an honorary Research Fellow post at the Centre for Geosciences at Glasgow University while getting the various television projects off the ground. He joined the University of Plymouth in 2004.

Research

Iain’s main research interests are in the broad area of recent crustal movements (neotectonics) and geo-hazards, particularly in terms of identifying ancient earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions in the geological and archaeological record. The majority of his field research has been in the Mediterranean region, hence the focus of his first BBC2/4 television series (2004), Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth, was geological travels through the architecture, art, food, climate, dangers and culture of the Mediterranean world.

TV work

Iain's geological research has featured in two BBC Horizon specials - The Search of Ancient Helike and Earthquake Storms - and he was the first geologist on the science team in the fourth BBC Two series Rough Science. Other geoscience television appearances include Inside the Ultimate Earthquake (Sky), Inside the Ultimate Volcano (Sky), 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Volcanoes (BBC4), and Climate Catastrophe or Global Conspiracy (BBC4).

The follow-up to the award-winning(*) Journeys From the Centre of the Earth was on the geology and culture around the Pacific Rim, a 4-part series called Journeys Into The Ring of Fire which aired on BBC2/BBC4 in 2006. Iain is the presenter of Earth – The Power of the Planet.

From 'Meet Iain Stewart'

I guess that even as a university academic I was a frustrated presenter. As a former child actor with an Equity card, I dodged the precarious glare of the footlights, turning instead to academia on the grounds that lecturing was just performing but with a steady income. The academic road began in 1986 when I graduated with a degree in Geology & Geography from Strathclyde University in Glasgow and moved to the University of Bristol to start a PhD on the geology of earthquakes in Greece and Turkey. After finishing my PhD in 1990, I headed to London to start teaching geology and physical geography at a small college, West London Institute, before it merged with Brunel University in Uxbridge. In 2002, as Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, I had a mid-life crisis. Keen to pursue media interests, I left Brunel - moving back north to take up an Honorary Research Fellow post in the Centre for Geosciences at Glasgow University. Much of the time at Glasgow was actually spent journeying south to London to sell the idea of a geology series to anyone willing to listen. Thankfully, someone at the BBC was willing to listen. In 2003 I was the first geologist (and Scot!) to be invited to join the science team of the popular BBC2 programme, Rough Science4, and around the same time my own geological research had featured in two BBC Horizon specials - Helike - The Real Atlantis 5 and Earthquake Storms 6.

My main research interests are in the broad area of Earth hazards and natural disasters, particularly in terms of identifying major earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions in the recent past, mainly the last 10,000 years. Most of my fieldwork has been carried out in the Mediterranean region, and much of my studies links in with those being done in geography, archaeology and ancient history. Out of this mish-mash emerged the idea of a series based around the geology of the ancient Mediterranean world – a combination of rough travel, rough history and rough rocks. For me, the key element in it was to make it as lively and accessible as possible – a geology series for those who didn’t know they liked geology!

Vandalism

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits, such as the one you made to PageName, did not appear to be constructive and has been removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the welcome page to learn more about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. Thank you. Whoosher (talk) 14:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC). You just copy that onto the editors talk page. You start at a level 1 warning then upgrade it every time after that by changing it to 2, 3 or 4. Obviously you replace "pagename" with the name of the article being vandalized. After you have given the editor a 4th warning you might as well ask for admin assistance over at WP:AIV.

Doh!supposed to be copying templates in!!