Dr Mark Purnell

Research Grants

• 2012-2016 NERC AST studentship: 3D microtextural analysis of tooth wear in fishes and killer whales - developing a robust tool for dietary and trophic analysis in living and fossil aquatic vertebrates.
  
• 2011-2013 NERC (and other funders) - Syntax award: Taphonomic bias in taxonomic and systematic analysis of fossils.
  
• 2011-2012 NERC small grant (with Sarah Gabbott) - Experimental decay of onychophorans - lobopodian anatomy and arthropod origins.
  
• 2010-2013 NERC Grant (with Dr Phil Donoghue & Dr Emily Rayfield, Bristol; Dr Zerina Johanson, NHM) - Teeth and jaws: evolutionary emergence of a model organogenic system and the adaptive radiation of gnathostomes
  
• 2008-2011 NERC Grant (with Dr Sarah Gabbott) - The problem of vertebrate origins – comparative taphonomy and gaps in the fossil record
• 2007-2008 NERC Small Grant - Using tooth wear to impose ecological constraints on isotopic and biostratigraphic analyses based on conodonts
• 2003-2008 NERC Advanced Fellowship (extension) - Evolution of Complexity in Vertebrates
• 2004-2007 NERC Grant (with Prof Paul Hart) - Bridging the gap between ecological and evolutionary timescales: tooth wear, niche differentiation and speciation in living and fossil fishes
• 1998- 2003 NERC Advanced Fellowship - The Early Evolution of Vertebrates: Diversity, Morphology and Function
• 2001-2002 NERC Small Grant (with Prof Paul Hart), Tooth wear, niche differentiation and stickleback speciation over evolutionary timescales
• 1999 Novartis Symposium Bursery
• 1992-1997 NERC Research Fellowship (initial award '92 - '95, extended until '97).
• 1995 Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship (not taken up).
• 1992 Linnean Society NERC Grant for Taxonomic Publication.
• 1990-1992 Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Award.

Awards and honorary titles

• Hinde Medal of the Pander Society (2006; awarded by international society of conodont researchers for outstanding contributions to the study of conodonts by an early/mid-career scientist)
• Research Associate, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada