Research
Research Interest 1
I am interested in using stable isotope geochemistry, along with broader geological information, to solve interesting problems that help us understand how the earth works.
My publications include work on past climates and environmental change: from relatively recent times (post-glacial records from lake sediments) to events associated with mass extinctions in the distant past.
I also apply the same approaches to trying to understand hydrocarbon reservoirs. The geochemical records of environmental change in carbonates enable us to help to correlate between wells, understand both the internal architecture of the reservoirs. Our isotopic data also help us to work out the origins of mineral cements that block pore spaces in the rocks.
Research groups
Research grants
High resolution lacustrine record of Holocene climate change.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 1998 - August 2002
Terminal cretaceous climate change and biotic response in Antartica.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2007 - August 2009
Soils and Sequences: Constraining the Ecology of Hominin Exploitation Levels at Olduvai
LSB LEAKEY FOUNDATION (USA)
May 2010 - September 2011
Quantification of terrestrial climate records - combination of biological and chemical proxies.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2003 - December 2007
High resolution lacustrine record of Holocene environmental changes: Hawes Water NW England.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2002 - December 2002
In Search of the Lost Great Lake of Africa
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY (USA)
August 2012 - September 2013
ISOMAP - UK: A combined data-modelling investigation of water isotopes and their interpretation during rapid climate - change events.
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL
April 2003 - January 2008