global warming were avoided, there would be less incentive to reduce greenhouse gases, and humans might continue to produce too much carbon dioxide until it caused some other environmental catastrophe, such as a chemical change in ocean water that could be disastrous to ocean life. Benford serves on the board of directors and the steering committee of the Mars Society. He has advocated human cryopreservation, for example by signing an open letter to support research into cryonics, being a member of Alcor, and by being an advisor to a UK cryonics and cryopreservation advocacy group. Gregory Benford retired from the University of California in 2006 in order to found and develop Genescient Corporation. Genescient is a new generation biotechnology company that combines evolutionary genomics with massive selective screening to analyze and exploit the genetics of model animal and human whole genomes. This enables Genescient to develop novel therapeutics that target the chronic diseases of aging. Scientific awards and recognition Phi Beta Kappa Woodrow Wilson Fellow Fellow of the American Physical Society Visiting Fellow Cambridge University University of Turin University of Bologna. 1995 Lord Prize for contributions to science 2006 Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Irvine Benford's law of controversy Benford's law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape, stating: The adage was quoted in an international drug policy article in a peer-reviewed social science journal. Selected bibliography Galactic Center Saga In the Ocean of Night (1977) Across the Sea of Suns (1984) Great Sky River (1987) Tides of Light (1989) Furious Gulf (1994) Sailing Bright Eternity (1996) "A Hunger for the Infinite" a novella published in the 1999 anthology Far Horizons References External links Gregory Benford official website Giant rotating space lens, a possible engineering solution for global warming proposed by Benford in 2004 "Terraforming Ganymede with Robert A. Heinlein" by Gregory Benford: part 1, part 2 Homepage at UCI List of works at Fantastic Fiction "Killer Bs" (Brin, Benford, Bear, Baxter and B-, er, Vinge) mailing list 2012 Interview at Locus (magazine) The Gregory Benford Papers (74.25 linear feet) housed at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy of the University of California, Riverside Libraries. 1941 births 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American physicists American atheists American astronomers American libertarians American male novelists American science fiction writers Cryonicists Fellows of Jesus College, Cambridge