It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of Dr Peter Furneaux Friend. Peter was a highly regarded and influential sedimentologist who spent his entire career in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.  He was also a great advocate for CASP.

Given his early research interests in Spitsbergen and his association with CASP’s founder, Brian Harland, it was perhaps inevitable that Peter would become involved with CASP (formerly the Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme). In his “retirement” from academia, Peter was elected to CASP’s Board of Trustees in 1995, serving for a remarkable 25 years, including a 12-year term as Chairperson between 1999 and 2011. He finally retired as a trustee in 2020.

On a personal level, all at CASP saw the same qualities so familiar to his colleagues, former students and friends.  He was warm, welcoming and inclusive, quite simply one of the most thoroughly likeable people one could hope to meet.

Peter’s obituary: www.esc.cam.ac.uk/files/peter_friend_obituary.pdf

11 November 2025