Earth and Environmental Sciences (SEES)

Head of School

School of Earth & Environmental Sciences

University of Portsmouth
Burnaby Building
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth PO1 3QL
UK

Course Leader
Unit coordinator of SEES 412 How the Earth Works, SEES 530 Structural Geology, SEES 625 Geodynamics, SEES 618 Geology Project and Advanced Field Study

2007 - present, Head of School, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
2003- Reader, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth.
1982-2003 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Principal Lecturer/Reader, Department of Geology, Oxford Polytechnic/Oxford Brookes University.
1978-82 University of Keele, Staffordshire (graduated PhD; thesis title: “Geology of the Moine rocks of the Loch Eil area, West Inverness-shire”).
1975-78 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (graduated BSc Hons in Geology, Upper Second Class).

Member, Geological Society of London Awards Committee 2005
Member, Geological Society of London Publications Committee, 2005-
Chief Editor, Journal of the Geological Society of London, 2005-
UK National Correspondent for IGCP Project 497 “The Rheic Ocean: its origin, evolution and correlatives” (2004-2009).
Member of the Geological Society of London Stratigraphy Commission (2003-2005).
Member of Regional Advisory Panel, British Geological Survey (2001-2007)
UK National Correspondent for IGCP Project 453 “Uniformitarianism Revisited - Comparisons between Ancient and Modern Orogens” (2000-2004)
Subject Editor, Journal of the Geological Society of London Editorial Board 1997-2005.
Committee Member, Tectonic Studies Group of the Geological Society of London, 1996-98.
UK National Secretary for IGCP Project 233 “Terranes in the Circum-Atlantic Palaeozoic Orogens” (1989-91).

The nature of orogenic processes within the middle to lower continental crust.
Mechanisms of granite emplacement in different structural settings.
The application of geochronological techniques to date deformational and metamorphic events during orogeny.
The evolution and reactivation history of major continental fault zones.
The syn- to post-orogenic erosional history of mountain belts.