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Mark A. Maslin is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans several interconnected subfields, including Ocean Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Atmospheric Science, General Health Professions, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Mark A. Maslin has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, notably:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Lancet
  • UCL Open Environment
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Journal of Quaternary Science

The scientist has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Roger D. Flood
  • David J.W. Piper
  • Adam Klaus
  • Stephen J. Bums
  • William H. Busch

Recent published papers include:

  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises, 2020, The Lancet
  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels, 2022, The Lancet
  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future, 2021, The Lancet
  • The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: the imperative for a health-centred response in a world facing irreversible harms, 2023, The Lancet
  • The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action, 2024, The Lancet

Mark A. Maslin has authored books published by UNESCO and World Scientific. Notable titles include:

  • River Dart fisheries survey 1974, 2021
  • River Dart spawning 1992, 2021
  • Climate Change, 2025

Best Publications

  • Defining the Anthropocene

    Simon L. Lewis;Mark A. Maslin

  • Managing the health effects of climate change

    Anthony Costello;Mustafa Abbas;Adriana Allen;Sarah Ball

  • Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Paolo Agnolucci;Jason Blackstock

  • The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels

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  • The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises.

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future.

    Marina Romanello;Alice McGushin;Claudia Di Napoli;Paul Drummond

  • The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Kristine Belesova

  • The 2018 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: shaping the health of nations for centuries to come

    Nick Watts;Markus Amann;Nigel Arnell;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson

  • The Lancet Countdown : tracking progress on health and climate change

    Nick Watts;W. Neil Adger;Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson;Yuqi Bai

  • North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago

    Gerald H. Haug;Andrey Ganopolski;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Antoni Rosell-Mele

  • Late Cenozoic Moisture History of East Africa

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction

    Mark Maslin

  • Glacial North Atlantic: Sea-surface conditions reconstructed by GLAMAP 2000

    U. Pflaumann;M. Sarnthein;M. Chapman;L. d'Abreu

  • The contribution of orbital forcing to the progressive intensification of Northern Hemisphere glaciation

    MA Maslin;MA Maslin;Xs. Li;Marie-France Loutre;André Berger

  • High- and low-latitude forcing of Plio-Pleistocene East African climate and human evolution.

    Martin H. Trauth;Mark A. Maslin;Alan L. Deino;Manfred R. Strecker

  • Linking continental-slope failures and climate change: Testing the clathrate gun hypothesis

    Mark Maslin;Matthew Owen;Simon Day;David Long

  • Gas hydrates: past and future geohazard?

    Mark Maslin;Matthew Owen;Richard Betts;Simon Day

  • East African climate pulses and early human evolution

    Mark A. Maslin;Chris M. Brierley;Alice M. Milner;Susanne Shultz

  • Variations in Atlantic surface ocean paleoceanography, 50°-80°N: A time-slice record of the last 30,000 years

    Michael Sarnthein;Eystein Jansen;Mara Weinelt;Maurice Arnold

  • Sudden climate transitions during the Quaternary

    Jonathan Adams;Mark Maslin;Ellen Thomas

  • Climate model and proxy data constraints on ocean warming across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

    Tom Dunkley Jones;Daniel J. Lunt;Daniela N. Schmidt;Andy Ridgwell

  • Iceberg production, debris rafting, and the extent and thickness of Heinrich layers (H-1, H-2) in North Atlantic sediments

    J. A. Dowdeswell;M. A. Maslin;J. T. Andrews;I. N. McCave

  • Late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in the Amazon basin based on a 50,000 year pollen record from the Amazon fan, ODP site 932

    Simon G. Haberle;Mark A. Maslin

  • Reconstruction of the Amazon Basin effective moisture availability over the past 14,000 years.

    Mark A. Maslin;Stephen J. Burns

  • Surface water temperature, salinity, and density changes in the northeast Atlantic during the last 45 000 years: Heinrich events, deep water formation, and climatic rebounds

    M.A. Maslin;N.J. Shackleton;U. Pflaumann

  • Magnetic susceptibility variations in Upper Pleistocene deep-sea sediments of the NE Atlantic: implications for ice-rafting and paleocirculation at the last glacial maximum

    Simon G. Robinson;Mark A. Maslin;I. Nicholas McCave

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Martin H. Trauth
Martin H. Trauth University of Potsdam
Simon L. Lewis
Simon L. Lewis University College London
Richard D. Pancost
Richard D. Pancost University of Bristol
Anthony Costello
Anthony Costello University College London
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
Hugh Montgomery
Hugh Montgomery University College London
Erin L. McClymont
Erin L. McClymont Durham University
Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas Yale University
Antoni Rosell-Melé
Antoni Rosell-Melé Autonomous University of Barcelona

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