Bilal U. Haq

Bilal Haq
Born
Bilal Ul Haq

(1948-10-08) 8 October 1948
Alma mater
Awards
  • Awarded Prestwich Prize (2019)
  • Elected to Academia Europaea (European Academy of Science and Letters) (2015)
  • Conferred Docteur honoris causa by Sorbonne University (2013)
  • Awarded AGU Ocean Sciences Award (2004)
  • Awarded US NSF Antarctic Medal (1999)
  • Elected Fellow AAAS (1999)
  • Awarded Shepard Medal for excellence in marine geology (1998)
  • Elected Fellow GSA (1976)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions

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Thesis Paleogene Calcareous Nannoflora: Rates of Evolution in Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton  (1972)
Doctoral advisorIvar Hessland
Website

Bilal U. Haq is a Pakistani-American geoscientist (and poet) who is currently affiliated with and divides his time between the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and Sorbonne University's Institute of Earth Sciences in Paris, France. He is best known for his work on the Phanerozoic sea-level fluctuations and eustatic curves that are widely used in the academia and industry as the basis for global stratigraphy and in exploration geology. He is a laureate of the Prestwich Prize for geosciences from France.