Awards and Medals
Royal Geographical Society Back Award for acid rain research, 1989
Elected Foreign Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1991
Rector's Guest and Research Medal of the University of Helsinki, 1994
Medal of Moscow State University, 1995
Honorary Professor, Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 2002
Recognised as a “Pioneer of the Nation” by Queen Elizabeth II, 2003
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society, 2006
Honorary DSc, University of Ulster, 2007
Ruth Patrick Award, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, 2009
Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, 2010
Honorary Fellow, University College London, 2011
Einstein Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2012
James Croll Medal, Quaternary Research Association, 2013
Lifetime Achievement Award, International Paleolimnology Association, 2015
Honorary DSc, Queens University at Kingston, Canada, 2015
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2018