Professor Mark Maslin is the Director of the UCL Environment Institute with a 3 years budget of over £1 million and 13 staff. He is also currently the Head of the Department of Geography with an annual budget of £6.5 million and over 100 staff.  Maslin is a leading climatologist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has publish over 85 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, and Geology.  He has been award grants of over £5 million, 20 of which have been awarded by NERC. His areas of scientific expertise include global warming, Government climate change policies, causes of past and future global climate change, ocean circulation, gas hydrates, Amazonia, East Africa, and Human evolution.
He has also have written 5 popular books, over 20 popular articles (e.g., for New Scientist, and Guardian), appeared on radio, television and been consulted regularly by the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News.  Programs have included Horizon, Newsnight, Dispatches, Time Team, Supervolcano and Superstorm..  He was also a consultant and presenter for the Sky News highly successful Green Britain Week in January 2007. His latest popular book is the high successful Oxford University Press "Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction".  This is a pocket sized book which provides a summary of the historical background, scientific debate, future impacts and the politics of global warming.