Michael Bickle

{{Short description|British geologist}}

{{other people|Mike Bickle}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name =Michael Bickle|honorific_suffix=FRS

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|02|26}}{{Cite web|url=http://ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245921|title = Bickle, Prof. Michael James, (Born 26 Feb. 1948), Director of Research, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, since 2015 (Professor, 2000–15)}}

|field=Geology

|workplaces=University of Cambridge

| thesis_title = Studies of thrust sheets across the Matrei Zone in the Eastern Alps

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.449775

| thesis_year = 1973

| doctoral_advisor = Ron Oxburgh

| doctoral_student =

| awards = Coke Medal, 2003, Murchison Medal, 2022

| website = {{URL|http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/directory/michael-bickle}}

}}

Michael James Bickle FRS is a British geologist, and professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.{{Cite web|url=http://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/directory/mb72@cam.ac.uk|title = Professor Mike Bickle FRS|date = 25 October 2010}}

He was awarded the Coke Medal of the Geological Society in 2003,{{cite web |url=http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history/page2984.html |title=Geological Society - 2003 Awards: Citations, Replies |accessdate=2011-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507142210/http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/society/history/page2984.html |archivedate=2012-05-07 }} and the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society in 2022. Bickle was elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2002, and Fellow of the Royal Society in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/michael-bickle-11082/|title=Michael Bickle|website=royalsociety.org}}

His research combines fieldwork, geochemical analysis and physical modelling,{{cite web |url=http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/mike-bickle |title=Professor Mike Bickle | Department of Earth Sciences - Main Site |accessdate=2011-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111102213437/http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/people/academic-staff/mike-bickle |archivedate=2011-11-02 }}

including carbon capture and storage.{{Cite web|url=https://www.energy.cam.ac.uk/directory/research-themes/supply/fossilfuels|title=Directory|website=www.energy.cam.ac.uk}} Bickle is best known for his work in the 1980s with Dan McKenzie on the compositions of melts produced during mantle melting, and for his subsequent work on silicate weathering, the carbon cycle and geological storage of carbon.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/news/geological-co2-storage-safer-than-previously-thought/|title=Geological CO2 storage safer than previously thought|date=July 29, 2016|website=The Engineer}}