Bilal U. Haq

Bilal Haq
Bilal Haq
Born	Bilal Ul Haq; 8 October 1948
Alma mater	University of the Punjab (MSc); Stockholm University (PhD, DSc);
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	Marine Geology; Marine sedimentology; Paleoceanography; Paleoclimatology; Paleobiogeography; Seismic stratigraphy; Sequence stratigraphy; Natural gas hydrates; Basin analysis; Hydrocarbon play evaluation;
Institutions	Sorbonne University; Smithsonian Institution; Utrecht University; US National Science Foundation; Exxon Production Research Labs; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Stockholm University; University of Vienna; [[University of the; Punjab]] ;
Thesis	Paleogene Calcareous Nannoflora: Rates of Evolution in Cenozoic Calcareous Nannoplankton (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Ivar Hessland
Website	www.terradynamicsinternational.com; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-level_curve;

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.

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