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Research Interests:
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Historical Geology, Paleontology, Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology.
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Evolutionary processes and the history of marine microfossil communites
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Classification and taxonomy of benthic foraminifera
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Biochronology of marine microfossils and calibration of zonal and stage boundaries to the Geomagnetic Polarity Time Scale
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Biostratigraphy of the North Atlantic and its marginal seas.
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High-latitude biostratigraphy and its correlation to standard, low-latitude biochronology
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Problems in Tethyan Paleobiogeography.and stratigraphic correlation.
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The evolution of Cretaceous-Cenozoic climate and the timescales of Global Change.
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The use of benthic foraminiferal assemblages for paleoenvironmental analysis:
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The development of the general circulation of the Atlantic Ocean from the Late Cretaceous to the Recent.
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North Atlantic sediment drifts, and the onset of thermohaline circulation in the world ocean
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Cretaceous/Tertiary, Eocene/Oligocene, and Miocene/Pliocene boundary problems.
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Disequilibrium processes in benthic marine communities.
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Paleobathymetric models and quantitative paleoecology (community structure).
Research Cruises and Expeditions:
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R/V Knorr Leg 102 to the Bermuda Rise, May 1983
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R/V Knorr Leg 103 to the Nova Scotian Continental Rise, June 1983
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ODP Leg 105 to the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, Sept.- Oct., 1985
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ODP Leg 123 to the Argo Abyssal Plain, Sept.- Oct., 1988
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"The Lost Ocean Expedition", a geological expedition to the Nepalese Himalayas,
organized by members of ODP Legs 122 and 123, April 1988.
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Field season in the European Alps and Rif Mountains of northern Morocco,
Sept.-Oct. 1989.
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Field work in central Italy, July 1992
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Field work in southern Spain, August 1995
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R/V Sonne Cruise 114 to the South China Sea, November 1996.
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R/V Sonne Cruise 132 to the South China Sea, June 1998.
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R/V Sonne Cruise 140 to the South China Sea, April 1999.
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MAR-02 Cruise to Marmara Sea and Black Sea, August 2002
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MAR-03 Cruise to the Aegean Sea, July 2003
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IODP Leg 302 ACEX Cruise to the Arctic Ocean, August-September 2004
Recent Research Grants (UCL):
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HEFCE, £ 243 k, Innovations for development of teaching & learning (with
Profs. L. Elton & G.D. Price)
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Saga Petroleum, £ 45 k, Upper Cretaceous of the West of Shetlands
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Saga Petroleum, £ 6 k, Cenozoic cosmopolitan deep-water agglutinated foraminifera
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British Council, £ 6.5 k, Recolonisation of the South China Sea after the
1991 Mt. Pinatubo volcanic eruption
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Royal Society, £ 7.0 k, The Eocene Transcarpathian Flysch (with S. Filipescu)
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AGOCO, £4 k, Support for micropaleontological studies of the Sirte Basin
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Chevron Overseas Petroleum, £ 3 k, CASE support for R.C. Preece,
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EEC Socrates, ca. 1 k /year, links with Universities of Urbino (Italy),
Kiel (Germany), Cluj (Romania)
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EEC - Training & Mobility of Researchers Programme, 25k DM, with Simon
Hill and Wolfgang Kuhnt in Kiel
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UCL, Supplementary Teaching Grant Award, £8 k, New microscopes for Undergraduate
teaching.
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NERC-CASE Studentship award, Miocene foraminifera in the Oxygen Minimum
Zone.
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TIMETRAX, 1k/year, Co-support for Rupert Green
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NERC ODP Special Topic, £6.5 k, Oligocene-Miocene DWAF from the northern
Norwegian Sea
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NORGES Project, ca. 6 k, Norwegian Sea biodiversity
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NERC-ODP, £7 k, Oligocene-Miocene paleoceanography of the northern Norwegian
Sea
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UCL Graduate School, £0.5 k, participation on the MAR-02 cruise
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NORGES Project, ca. 6 k, Norwegian Sea biodiversity.
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NERC ODP Special Topic, £7.5 k, Miocene DWAF from the northern Norwegian Sea & Arctic.
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British Petroleum, £63k, Cenozoic micropalaeontology of offshore Angola
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Palaeontological Association, £1k, A workshop on Foraminiferal Classification
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IODP/NERC, £2k, Rapid Response Grant – Miocene of the Arctic
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NERC ODP Special Topic, £27k, – Paleogene Palaeoceanography of the Central Arctic
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British Council/DAAD – 2.5k, Collaborative studies on the Miocene paleoclimate of the Central Arctic
Invited Talks:
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SEPM Annual Meeting, Raleigh N.C., 1986
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Second International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Vienna 1986
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Atlantic Geoscience Centre Visiting Lecture Series, 1987
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Ocean-Industries Program Annual Meeting, WHOI, 1988
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Geological Association of Canada - Mineralogical Assoc. of Canada Annual
Meeting, St. John's 1988
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UNOCAL Visiting Lecture Series, Brea CA, 1988
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Penrose Conference on the Late Paleogene, Grand Rapids SD, 1989
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Cushman Foundation Session on deep-sea benthic foraminifera, GSA Annual
Meeting, St. Louis, 1989
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IGCP Project 262 Tethyan Cretaceous Correlation Conference, Krakow Poland,
May 1990
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University of Tübingen Visiting Lecture Series, June 1990
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IGCP Project 308 Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Conference, Brussels, 1991
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University of Southampton Visiting Lecture Series, May 1992
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University of Munich Visiting Lecture Series, June 1993
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British Micropalaeontological Society Foraminiferal Group, April 1994
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African Micropaleontological Colloquium, Angers France (Session Chair),
June 1994
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IGCP Project 308 Paleocene/Eocene Boundary Conference, Beer Sheva Israel,
January 1995
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Norwegian Biostratigraphical Group, Oslo, October 1996
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Durham University, Department of Geography, Visiting Lecture Series, March
1997
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Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dynamic Geology, Krakow, Visiting
Lecture Series, May 1997
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Fifth International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Plymouth, UK
(session chair), September 1997
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Norwegian Biostratigraphical Group, Bergen, October 1997
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University of Munich Visiting Lecture Series, November 1997
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Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca Romania, Visiting Lecture Series, May
1998
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University of Reading, Sedimentology Visiting Lecture Series, January 1999
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University of Utrecht "Ocean Floor Symposium", March 1999
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National Institute of Geological Sciences, University of the Philippines,
Queson City, May 1999
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Memorial University of Newfoundland, Visiting Lecture Series, June 1999
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Second Romanian Paleontological Convention, (Invited talk + Session Chair),
September 1999
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Session Chair, Second Romanian Palaeontological Symposium, Cluj-Napoca,
October 1999
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Session Chair, The "Mikro-2000" meeting, Kraków Poland,
June 2000
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Session Chair, The "Mikro-2001" meeting, Zakopane Poland, June
2001
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Session Chair, 6th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera,
Prague, 2001
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Department of Palaeontology, Geology Museum, Oslo University, Departmental
Seminar Series, November 2001
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Polish Geological Society, Poznan Branch, Lecture Series, A. Mickiewicz
University of Poznan, April, 2002
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Romanian Student Chapter of AAPG, annual meeting, Cluj-Napoca Romania, May 2003
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Session Chair, 4th All-Poland Micropalaeontological Workshop “Mikro-2003”, Kazimierz Poland, May 2003
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Session Chair, 4th Romanian Paleontological Symposium, Cluj-Napoca Romania, September 2003
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“The Black Sea Flood: Geological & Archaeological Evidence” Columbia University, NYC, October 2003
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Quaternary Studies Research Seminar, Wolfson College Cambridge University, October 2003
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“Research Drilling in the Arctic” U.K. Launch of IODP, Royal Society, June 2004
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Norwegian Stratigraphic Consortium meeting, September 2004
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British Council Youth Conference on Climate Change, Freiburg Germany, July 2005
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British Council Youth Conference on Climate Change, Oslo, Norway, November 2005
Research Conference Committees:
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Organizing Committee, 2nd International Conference on Paleoceanography, Woods Hole MA, 1986
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Scientific Committee, 2nd International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Vienna Austria, 1986
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Organizing Committee, NATO Advanced Studies Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Tubingen 1989
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Organizing Committee, "Carbon Cycling in the Glacial Ocean" a workshop prior to 3rd ICP, Kiel Germany, 1992
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Organizing Committee, 4th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Krakow Poland, 1993
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Organizing Committee, "ODP and the Marine Biosphere" International Conference, Aberystwyth, 1994.
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Scientific Committee, 5th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Plymouth, 1997
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Organizing Committee, Carpathian Biostratigraphy Group, Krakow Poland, March, 1998
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Organizing Committee MIKRO-2000 Conference, Krakow Poland, June, 2000
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Organizing Committee, First Workshop on North African Biostratigraphy, UCL, August 2000.
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Organizing Committee, 6th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Prague, 2001
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Organizing Committee, The “Mikro-2003” meeting, Kazimierz nad Wisla, Poland, May 2003
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Organizing Committee, The 4th Romanian Paleontological Symposium, Cluj-Napoca, Sept. 2003
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Organizing Committee, The “Mikro-2005” meeting, Szymbark, Poland, June 2005
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Organizing Committee, 7th International Workshop on Agglutinated Foraminifera, Urbino, 2005
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