Jan Zalasiewicz

Jan Zalasiewicz (down right) in 2023

Jan Zalasiewicz (born 1954 in Manchester) is a British-Polish geologist and palaeontologist, emeritus professor at the University of Leicester, and Ig Nobel laureate.

Life

His parents escaped from Siberia with the Anders' Army. He was the head of the Anthropocene Working Group from 2009 to 2020. In 2014, a paper co-authored by Zalasiewicz coined the term technofossil.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ Jan Zalasiewicz Archived 2023-11-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ The Conversation Profile.
  3. ↑ University of Leicester staff page.
  4. ↑ Jan Zalasiewicz, University of Leicester - A New Age - The Academic Minute, academicminute.org, 5 August 2016, archived from the original on 2024-01-07, retrieved 2020-07-09
  5. ↑ Past Ig Winners, improbable.com, August 2006, archived from the original on 2023-09-17, retrieved 2023-09-17
  6. ↑ Więc chodź, zafoliuj mi świat. Antropocen, epoka człowieka, epoka plastiku.
  7. ↑ "Anthropocene Curriculum". www.anthropocene-curriculum.org. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
  8. ↑ Zalasiewicz, Jan; Williams, Mark; Waters, Colin N; Barnosky, Anthony D; Haff, Peter (2014-01-07). "The technofossil record of humans". The Anthropocene Review. 1 (1): 34–43. doi:10.1177/2053019613514953. hdl:2381/38871. ISSN 2053-0196.