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Prof Kevin Pickering
Emeritus Professor
Dept of Earth Sciences
Faculty of Maths & Physical Sciences
- Joined UCL
- 31st Jan 2022
Research summary
Kevin has published more than 140 peer-reviewed
papers, co-authored 7 books and edited 3 books on aspects of deep-water sediments
and global environmental issues. He managed the industry-sponsored Ainsa
Project, an integrated outcrop-subsurface drilling project to understand
deep-marine channels in the Spanish Pyrenees, and has sailed on four
international scientific drilling expeditions (DSDP Leg 96, ODP Leg 131, IODP Expeditions 322 and 338). In 2016, he will participate as a shipboard scientist on IODP Expedition 362). In 2010, in
recognition of his research, Pickering was elected as a Fellow of the
Geological Society of America.
Teaching summary
Surface Processes and Structures, Third Year Pyrenees Field Class, Fourth Year Greece / Betics Field Class.
Education
- University of Exeter
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Postgraduate Certificate in Education | 1981
- University of Oxford
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 1979
- University of Bristol
- First Degree, Bachelor of Science (Honours) | 1976