Teaching Experience:

• Cambridge University First Certificate English, Acad. Mining & Metalurgy Krakow, Poland,>1981-1982

• Polish language instructor, New Bedford Chapter PNA, St. Casimir's Church, New Bedford MA,>1982-1986

• Teaching assistant for W.A. Berggren's short course on benthic foraminifera, Brown University, >1985-87.

• Instructor of Geology 4500 (senior level micropaleontology) at Dalhousie University, >1988-89

• Instructor of Geology 6100 (graduate level micropaleontology) at Dalhousie University, >1989

• Instructor of Geology 1040 (first year Geology Seminar for non-majors), Dalhousie University, >1988-89

• Instructor of a postgraduate-level short course on benthic foraminifera, University of Oslo, >1990

• Instructor of M.Sc. course in Micropalaeontology, University College London, >1991-2009

• Instructor of 3rd year undergraduate course in Micropalaeontology, University College London, >1991-2009

• Instructor of 3rd year undergraduate course in Palaeoceanography, University College London, >1994-2009

• Instructor of 2nd year undergraduate lectures on Micropalaeontology, Imperial College of Science & Technology

• Instructor of a postgraduate-level short course on foraminifera, University of Urbino, 1>995 - present

• Instructor of a postgraduate-level short course on foraminifera, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, >1995

• Instructor of an NERC postgraduate-level short course on foraminifera, ECRC, UCL, 1998-present

• Instructor of 3rd/4th year research seminar "Global Change & the Biosphere", University College London, 1999-2009

• 3rd/4th year Geology Field Excursion in Southern Spain, 2001

• 1st/2nd year Geology/Palaeobiology Field Techniques Course  in the Umbria-Marche Basin, 2002 – 2008

• 2nd year Geology/Palaeobiology Field Course  in the Ebro Delta – Ainsa area, northern Spain, 2003 – 2008

• Degree Director, B.Sc./M.Sci. degree in Palaeobiology at UCL, September 2002 – 2009
  

Postgraduate Thesis Committees (Supervisory or Examination):

a. Primary Supervisor

• Victoria Mondejar-Marchante, UCL, The Eocene/Oligocene boundary at ODP Site 647 (M.Sc. 1991).

• Jon Radley, UCL, Deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from the Taala Lakhra Flysch (M.Sc. 1991).

• Caroline McCabe, UCL, Eocene-Oligocene benthic foraminifera from Trinidad (M.Sc. 1992).

• Ann Holbourn, UCL, The development of a late Jurassic oxygen minimum zone (M.Sc. 1992).

• Amal Al Hassawi UCL, Benthic foraminiferal response to the spring phytoplankton bloom (M.Sc. 1993).

• Susan Kinsey, UCL, Paleocene-Eocene benthic foraminifera from Gubbio (M.Sc. 1993).

• Victoria Cottrill, UCL, Eocene Agglutinated Foraminifera from Contessa Valley, Italy (M.Sc. 1994).

• Lea Holstein, UCL, Palaeogene benthic foraminifera from the Danish sector of the North Sea (M.Sc., 1995)

• Brian Spivey, UCL, Recolonisation by benthic foraminifera following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption (M.Res., 1997)

• Suzan McNaughton, UCL, Palaeocene-Eocene benthic foraminifera of the North Sea (M.Sc.).

• Ann Holbourn, UCL, Cretaceous deep-sea benthic foraminifera of the Indian Ocean (Ph.D. 1996)

• John Evans, UCL, Neogene benthic foraminifers from the Central Arctic Ocean (Ph.D. 1997)

• Simon Hill, UCL, Recolonisation by benthic foraminifera following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption (M.Res. 1998)

• Angela Holder, UCL, Microhabitats of deep-sea benthic foraminifera on the E. Pacific Rise (M.Res. 1998)

• Shalon Miah, UCL, Paleocene benthic foraminifera from the West of Shetlands (M.Sc. 1998)

• Aubry Lamdin-Whymark, UCL, Mid. Eocene to Miocene biostrat. & palaeoenviron. of CNS well 23/26a (M.Sc. 1998)

• Rachel Preece, UCL, Neogene benthic foraminifers from the Oxygen Minimum Zone (Ph.D. 1999)

• Barbara Gainswin, UCL, Response of Foraminifera to phytodetritus in the NE Atlantic (M.Res. 1999)

• Jodie Fisher, UCL, Recolonisation by benthic foraminifera following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption (M.Res. 1999)

• Paul Baker, UCL, Springs of the Kraków-Miechów Uplands (M.Res. 1999)

• Rupert Green, UCL, Changes in Productivity proxies across the K/T boundary in Central Italy (M.Sci.)

• Daniel Capp, UCL, Benthic foraminiferal response to the last deglaciation in the Labrador Sea (M.Sci.)

• Steven Majhu, UCL, Holocene benthic foraminifera from the Sea of Marmara, (M.Sc. 2000)

• Theodora van den Akker, UCL, Upper Cretaceous benthic foraminifera from the West of Shetlands (Ph.D.)

• Mona Al Salameen, UCL, Response of benthic foraminifera to pollution in the Mediterranean (Ph.D.)

• Ahmed Muftah, UCL, Upper Cretaceous - Palaeogene benthic foraminifera from the Sirte Basin (Ph.D.)

• Matthew Box, UCL, Holocene benthic foraminifera from the Sea of Marmara, (M.Sci., 2001)

• Lucy Burn, UCL, The Phanerozoic diversity record of agglutinated foraminifera (M.Sci. 2001)

• Rhiannon Davis, UCL, The terminal Maastrichtian agglutinated foraminifera from Gubbio (M.Sci. 2001)

• Ana Farina, UCL, Eocene foraminifera from the Ainsa borehole, Spain (M.Sc. 2001)

• Theodora Blaj, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, Holocene foraminifera from the S. Black Sea (M.Sc.)

• Kevin Brown, UCL, Plio-Pleistocene foraminifera from the Sapphire Field, Nile Delta (M.Sc. 2002)

• Claudia Cetean, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, Paleocene DWAF from the Esna Shales, Egypt (M.Sc.,)

• Sarah Emberson, UCL, Response of agglutinated foraminifera to Early Eocene warming, Gubbio (M.Sci)

• David Ford, UCL, Benthic foraminifera across the Cenomanian/Turonian Boundary, Silesian Unit, Poland (M.Sci.)

• Sev Kender, UCL, Biostratigraphy of the Noth (1912) type locality at Barwinek, Magura Unit, Poland (M.Sc.)

• Claudiu Chendes, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, Holocene foraminifera from the Marmara Sea (M.Sc.)

• Dominic Armitage, UCL, Grain selection in Agglutinated Foraminifera (M.Sci, 2004)

• Lorand Silye, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, Neogene foraminifera from ODP Site 909 (M.Sc. 2004.)

• Stephen Whitehead, UCL, Cretaceous-Paleocene foraminifera, Indian Harbour well (M.Sc. 2004)

• Sarah Heah, UCL, Lower Eocene Foraminifera and hyperthermal events, (M.Sc. 2005)

• Allison Huggett, UCL, Miocene agglutinated foraminifera from Transylvania (M.Sc. 2005)

• David Little, UCL, Mid Cretaceous planktonic events in the Norwegian Sea and NW Germany (M.Sc. 2005)

• Joshua Ball, UCL, Marsh foraminifera from Norfolk, U.K. (M.Sc. anticipated 2006)

• Sev Kender, UCL, Miocene DWAF from West Africa (Ph.D., anticipated 2007)

• Abdullah Al Doubeeb, UCL, Jurassic foraminifera and microfacies from Saudi Arabia (Ph.D., anticipated 2008)
  

b. Second Supervisor

• Spencer Roberts, UCL, the Neogene of Halmahera (Ph.D. 1994).

• Aneta Gryglak, Jagiellonian U., Eocene benthic foraminifera from Biecz, Silesian Unit, Polish Carpathians. (M.Sc.)

• Sabina Owczarek, Jagiellonian U., The Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Dukla Unit, Polish Carpathians. (M.Sc.)

• Jaroslaw Migacz, Jagiellonian U., Eocene benthic foraminifera from Barwinek & Komarnik, Magura Unit. (M.Sc.)

• Sandra Crespo de Cabrera, Kingston University, Late Cretaceous environments of eastern Venezuela (Ph.D.)

c. External Ph.D. Theses Examined

• Paul Sikora, Rutgers University, Atlantic mid-Cretaceous benthic foraminifera (1989)

• Christopher Smart, U. Southampton, Patterns of speciation & extinction in the deep sea (1992)

• Andrew Henderson, Plymouth U., Late Jurassic foraminifera from north Dorset (1997)

• Gregory John Milner, U. Western Australia, Paleogene foraminiferal studies in the western Pacific (1997)

• Kenneth Neil Bell, Macquarie U. (Australia), Taxonomy & Biostrat. of Silurian-Devonian Foraminifera (1999)

• Barry Almond Taylor, U. Western Australia, Lower Cretaceous of the Carnarvon Basin, W. Australia (M.Sc. 2001)

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