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Nicholas Shackleton

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Shackleton was also a skilled amateur clarinet player, and collector of woodwind instruments. During his lifetime he amassed a large collection of clarinets and related instruments. His Cambridge home became a place of pilgrimage for many players and scholars. Shackleton was internationally known as
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In September 2000 Shackleton published an innovative study of the relationship between the oxygen isotope record of the oceans and isotope records obtained from the ice in Antarctica (glacial effect). This helped to identify the relative contribution of deep water temperature changes and ice volume
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Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise timescales based on matching the periodic cycles in deep-sea sediment cores to calculations of incoming sunlight at particular latitudes over geological time. This method allows a far greater level of stratigraphic precision than other
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who lodged with him for several years. The fine copies, by Cambridge maker Daniel Bangham, of many clarinets in Shackleton's collection, had a significant impact on historical performance from the 1980s, and continue to be used by leading performers today.
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composition of calcareous microfossils. Shackleton also found evidence that the Earth's last magnetic field reversal was 780,000 years ago. He became internationally known, in 1976, with the publication of a paper, with James Hays and John Imbrie, in
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together with an endowment. Part of the collection is now exhibited at the Reid Concert Hall, as part of Edinburgh University's Collection of Historic Musical Instruments. The collection has been described in a published catalogue
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cores, Shackleton, Hays and Imbrie demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun (see
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In 1995 Shackleton became Director of the Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research. In 1998 he was knighted for his services to earth sciences. From 1999 to 2003 he was president of the
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Apart from periods abroad as Visiting Professor or Research Associate, Shackleton's entire scientific career was spent at Cambridge. He became Ad hominem Professor in 1991, in the
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changes to the marine isotopic record, and also highlighted the close interdependency between carbon dioxide levels and temperature change over the last 400,000 years.
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In addition to his reputation in the scientific world, Shackleton was highly respected by many musicians, and a friend to many who studied at Cambridge, including
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The Glacial effect describes the change of the oxygen isotope composition of sea water, due to growing ice sheets in high latitudes during glacials.
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dedicated to Nick Shackleton; includes several articles by and about him, as well as a complete list of his publications.
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an organologist, reflected in his many journal articles, as well as his contributions to the 1980 and 2001 editions of
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dating methods, and has also helped to clarify the rates and mechanisms of aspects of climate change.
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entitled "Variations in the Earth's orbit: Pacemaker of the ice ages". Using
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Carus Medal, Deutsche Akademie für Naturforscher 'Leopoldina' 1985
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Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal
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Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist
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A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences
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Francis P. Shepard Medal for marine geology (SEPM) 1985
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Blue Planet Prize, Asahi Glass Foundation, Japan 2005
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Knighthood for services to the earth sciences in 1998
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Index

Nick Shackleton
FRS
Quaternary
Fellow of the Royal Society
Lyell Medal
Wollaston Medal
Urey Medal
Vetlesen Prize
Blue Planet Prize
FRS
paleoclimatologist
Quaternary
Robert Millner Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton
Cranbrook School, Kent
natural sciences
Clare College, Cambridge
Master of Arts
Department of Earth Sciences
Godwin Institute for Quaternary Research

paleoceanography
mass spectrometry
oxygen isotope
ocean sediment
Milankovitch cycles
International Union for Quaternary Research
Royal Society
Earth Science
European Association of Geochemistry

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