The Anthropocene is real despite news to the contrary!
PROF. WATERS, Colin
University of Leicester, UK
Prof. Colin N. Waters is a retired principal mapping geologist, formerly of the British Geological Survey (between 1988 and 2017), with specific interests in Carboniferous and Anthropocene stratigraphy. He has been Honorary Professor at the Geography, Geology and the Environment School, University of Leicester since 2016, and in 2019 was Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. He has been Secretary of the Anthropocene Working Group (of the ICS Quaternary Subcommission) from 2011 and its Chair since 2020, and has been Secretary of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London since 2006. He has 165 peer-reviewed publications, with in excess of 12000 citations. He received a degree in Geology and Mineralogy from Oxford University in 1984 and completed a PhD at University College, Cardiff in 1988.