Queen's Birthday Honours
17 June 2010
The Natural Environment Research Council extends warmest congratulations to colleagues who received Queen's Birthday Honours this year, in recognition of their outstanding achievements.
Our congratulations go to:
Professor John Rex Beddington, CMG, Government Chief Scientific Adviser and a former member of NERC Council, who has been awarded a knighthood.
Professor John Graham Shepherd, FRS, Professorial Research Fellow in Earth System Science, and former Director of, the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, who has been awarded a CBE for services to science.
Professor Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, Chaning Wills Professor of Geology at the University of Bristol and a former member of NERC's Science & Innovation Strategy Board. He has been awarded a CBE for services to Environmental Science.
Professor Anthony George Doré, Vice-President for Global Exploration at Statoil, a member of the Ocean Margins LINK Programme management committee and also a grant assessor for NERC. He receives an OBE for services to Geology.
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