Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Researcher with 25 years academic and industry experience in sedimentology, geochemistry, and diagenesis, with integration of regional, outcrop, subsurface, and laboratory analytical data to characterize depositional systems, reservoirs and paleoclimates. Specific research areas are the geodynamic and sedimentary evolution of continental rifts, and the reconstruction of Precambrian environmental conditions via the sedimentary and geochemical study of carbonate and microbial depositional systems. Undergraduate and postgraduate teacher in sedimentology, petrography, economic geology, field skills. Field trip leader (Spain, Sicily, UK, Oman, Namibia, South Africa). Geographical zones of expertise: South Africa, Namibia, South Atlantic (Angola, Congo, Brazil), Mauritania (Taoudeni Basin), Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman), China (Sichuan Basin), South East Asia, Netherlands Specialism: carbonate sedimentology, evaporite sedimentology, petrography, basin analysis, microbial sediments, Precambrian basins, geochemistry, diagenesis
trainee well-site geologist, petrophysical interpretation of wells
• Responsibilities: Regional syntheses and exploration studies (regional data, seismic interpretation, well correlations, outcrop studies); Reservoir studies; R&D and coordination with university partners; Supervision of students and internal training
• Project: Agouron Drilling Programme: sedimentology and geochemistry as archives for environmental change in the Precambrian • Responsibilities: field- and core-based research on Precambrian carbonates; teaching geology (basic geology, sedimentology, field camps); website administrator
• Projects: GPS-based mapping and facies analysis of carbonate platforms as analogs for hydrocarbon reservoirs; geochemical archives in Proterozoic–Cambrian sediments as archives for environmental change