Raymond Bradley

DepartmentOrganizationEmailPhoneAddressAmherst , Massachusetts 01003United StatesBioRay Bradley is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geosciences and Director of the Climate System Research Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He did his undergraduate work at Southampton University (U.K.) and his post-graduate studies (M.S., Ph.D.) at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder. He also earned a D.Sc. from Southampton University, for his contributions in paleoclimatology. In 2015, he received the Zuckerberg Leadership Chair from the University of Massachusetts Foundation, and he is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Bradley is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Arctic Institute of North America and he was elected a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He received the Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union and honorary degrees (D.Sc honoris causa) from Lancaster University (U.K.), Queen’s University (Canada) and the University of Bern (Switzerland).

Science Specialties

paleoclimatology, climatology, global change

Current Research

Paleoclimatic reconstructions from lake sediments in Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Svalbard and Northern Norway