Peter Liss is an environmental scientist with an interest in biogeochemical interactions between ocean and atmosphere. In particular, Peter studies the process of air-sea gas exchange and the mechanisms of trace gas formation in the oceans, as well as their role and reactivity in the atmosphere. His work is helping to answer important questions about climate and other global changes.
He is a pioneer in the field of global biogeochemical cycles, greatly contributing to knowledge of the cycles of silicon, the halogens, sulfur and selenium. A prominent international biogeochemist, he chairs several scientific committees and has been a member of Defra's Science Advisory Council and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. From 2013 - 2014, he was a Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study Fellow. He has served as Executive Director of the International Council for Science and recently has been Executive Chair of the Natural Environment Research Council.
Peter received the Challenger Society Medal in 2000, the John Jeyes Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2003 and was the first Honorary Fellow of the UK National Oceanography Centre in 2019. In 2008, he was made a CBE in recognition of his services to science.
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Earth and Environmental Sciences
Atmospheric chemistry, Climate sciences, Chemical oceanography, Geochemistry
