Professor Martin Williams

Martin Williams is Emeritus Professor at the University of Adelaide and a world authority on climatic and environmental change at a variety of scales in space and time.

About Martin

Martin's Latest Publication

When The Sahara Was Green

The obscure and widely unknown history of how the Sahara was transformed from a green and fertile land into the largest hot desert in the world

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Other Publications

Martin is author or co-author of over 200 research papers (11 in Nature) and has edited/authored 16 books. For detailed information on more of Martin's publications click on the button below.

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Awards

Martin has been the recipient of many prestigious awards throughout his distinguished career including the Farouk El Baz Award for Desert Research from the Geological Society of America.