Senior Lecturer

Palaeobiology Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3928 Email:jaz1@le.ac.uk

Research interests

Mudrock processes, including element fractionation during diagenesis and low-grade metamorphism.

Early Palaeozoic and Quaternary stratigraphy and sedimentology; graptolite morphology and distribution.

Chair, Stratigraphy Commission of The Geological Society

Four recent publications

• Vandenbroucke, T.R.A., Williams, M., Zalasiewicz, J.A., Davies J.R. & Waters, R.A.  2008.  Integrated Upper Ordovician graptolite-chitinozoan biostratigraphy of the Cardigan and Whitland areas, southwest Wales.  Geological Magazine, 145, 199-214.
• Zalasiewicz, J., Williams, M , Smith, A., Barry, T.L., Bown, P.R., Rawson, P., Brenchley, P., Cantrill, D., Coe, A.E., Cope, J.C.W., Gale, A., Gibbard, P.L., Gregory, F.J.,  Hounslow, M., Knox, R., Powell, P., Waters, C., Marshall, J., Oates & Stone, P.  2008. Are we now living in the Anthropocene?  GSA Today, 18 (2), 4-8.
• Gabbott, S., Zalasiewicz, J. & Collins, D.  2008.  Sedimentation of the Phyllopod Bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation of British Columbia.  Journal of the Geological Society, 165, 307-318.
• Blackett, E., Zalasiewicz, J., Page, A., Williams, M., Rickards, B. & Davies, J.  2008.  A refined graptolite biostratigraphy for the late Ordovician-early Silurian of central Wales.  Lethaia. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00108.x

Teaching

• 1st Year co-ordinator and embedded maths tutor
• GL1013 Time, Fossils and the Stratigraphic Record
• GL1019 Maps and Structures
• GL1024 Planetary Geology
• GL1017 Sedimentary World
• GL1018 Geology and Society
• GL1021 Introductory Field Course
• GL2005 Sedimentology
• GL2034 Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record
• GL3050 Environmental Geoscience
• GL3065 Palaeobiology
• GL4068 Palaeoclimatology
• Contributor to i-science degree

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