Richard A (Tony) EggletonProfessor Emeritus Australian National University
My boyhood dream
was to play cricket for Australia, but my average in the school’s third eleven
suggested a career in science might be a better option. So with a First Class
Honours degree from the University of Adelaide, I went to America to do a PhD
in mineralogy, and in 1966 I was appointed to the Australian National
University. I taught mineralogy, supervised post-graduate students and did
research leading to over 90 research articles. My research was supported by many grants, culminating with the Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Evolution
and Mineral Exploration (1995-2001). Along the way I was awarded the degree of
Doctor of Science by the University of Adelaide for my research, had the
mineral eggletonite named after me, and became a Professor.
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My research and my interests:
This book was
written to explain climate change to anyone with an enquiring mind. Each
aspect of the evidence is taken in turn, and comparison with the
climates and changes of the past
tells us that the current rate of climate change is unprecedented.
Burning fossil fuels has
increased the atmosphere’s content of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, and
the book explains how that has caused global warming. Arguments to the contrary
are considered and shown to be spurious, and the book concludes with ideas
about what the future holds and what we might do to mitigate the impact of
climate change.
Much of my research career was devoted to understanding clay minerals and other layer silicates. From 1990 until I retired my geological research was mostly about bauxite, the ore of aluminium. I have explored in detail the huge bauxite deposits at Weipa in far north Queensland, seen those of the Darling Ranges in Western Australia and investigated smaller bauxite deposits on the New South Wales Southern Highlands with my colleague Graham Taylor. Recently I have been working on the topography of granitic batholiths.
Another interest - butterfly photography. This one is the Chequered Copper (Lucia limbaria).
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