Professor Larry Edwards receives honorary doctorate

Prof. R. Lawrence Edwards, University of Minnesota

R. Lawrence Edwards (*1953) is a geoscientist who shaped an entire generation of researchers studying the dynamics of the Earth system, climate and ocean. The methods he developed and improved for determining the age of rocks, such as uranium-thorium dating, have made climate history accessible back 640,000 years into the past. His research results provide important insights into natural climate change and abrupt climate changes and their historical impacts. The basis for this is cave deposits, ice cores and ocean sediments, which can be used to reconstruct climate development over thousands of years. 

Larry Edwards is a professor of geochemistry at the University of Minnesota, USA, and is one of the most cited geoscientists in the world. Numerous joint publications in high-ranking journals testify to the close collaboration with the Innsbruck research group led by Christoph Spötl from the Institute of Geology. Edward's expertise is also the basis for a state-of-the-art age laboratory at the University of Innsbruck, the first of its kind in Austria. For his outstanding scientific achievements, the University of Innsbruck awards R. Lawrence Edwards an honorary doctorate in natural sciences.

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