Mark Maslin

Mark Andrew Maslin (born 1968) is a professor of Earth System Science at the University College London and the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

[1] Maslin has published over 200 scientific papers,[2][3] some of them on journals such as Nature,[4] having received approximately 25,000 citations according to ResearchGate[5] and more than 32,500 according to Google Scholar, where his h-index is given to be 75 and an i10 index of 188.

[10]: 3  According to research by Alex Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis, the global temperature decrease between 1550 and 1700 as forest regeneration resulted in additional carbon sequestration.

[10]: 3  Describing this decrease in atmospheric carbon dioxide as the orbis spike, Maslin and Lewis state that the event could be viewed as the beginning of the Anthropocene.

[11] In the context of science communication, he has appeared on such shows as Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time[12][13] and David Attenborough's Climate Change – The Facts,[14][15] at Talks at Google,[16] on BBC's Newshour,[17] on Channel 4's Dispatches[18] et al.