Background
Frostick, Lynne Elizabeth was born on February 2, 1949 in Gillingham, United Kingdom. Daughter of Victor Alec and Kathleen Frances Frostick.
President of the Geological Society of London
Frostick, Lynne Elizabeth was born on February 2, 1949 in Gillingham, United Kingdom. Daughter of Victor Alec and Kathleen Frances Frostick.
She was educated at Dartford Grammar School for Girls, the University of Leicester (Bachelor of Science Geology, 1970), and completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 at the University of East Anglia entitled "Sediment Studies in the Deben Estuary, Suffolk, England".
She is currently Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Hull. Her research interests include sediment and flow dynamics in rivers and estuaries and the interdisciplinary problems associated with waste. The physical modelling facility she has developed at The Deep is part of the European Union HYDRALAB project
Activities outside of the university have included a seat on the editorial board of Geographical Journal and chairing the government’s Expert Group for Women in Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics. In 2008 Frostick became President of the Geological Society of London and chair of the British Society for Geomorphology.
Frostick has published over one hundred papers and books, crossing disciplines including physics, mathematics and engineering.
Member East Yorkshire Rural Advisory Committee, East Yorkshire, since 1997. Fellow Geological Society, International Association Sedimentologists.
Married Ian Reid; children: Alexander, Andrew, Thomas.