Bruce W. Sellwood

Career & Qualifications: University of Reading: BSc (Hons) Geology; University of Oxford (1967-70) DPhil Sedimentology; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford (1970); Fellow of the Geological Society of London; Chartered Geologist; Member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.

Present Employment: 1993- Professor of Applied Sedimentology.

Previous Appointments: Lecturer in Geology Oxford Polytechnic (1972); Lecturer in Geology Reading University (1974-87); Reader in Geology (1987-93); Visiting Assoc. Professor University of Texas (1979); Visiting Professor University of Malaya (1985).

External Academic Activities: Editor-in-Chief, Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier, 1987-); NERC Grants and Training Awards Committees (1986-90); Member of Scientific Review Group of the Drill Cuttings Initiative, UK Offshore Operations Association (UKOOM) (1999-), Referee Panel Research Council of Norway.

External Examiner Appointments: BSc Earth Sciences External Examiner University of Oxford (1992 and 1993); BSc Earth Sciences Examiner, University of London (UCL) 1994; BSc Geology Examiner University of Malaya (UM) 1995 to 1997; Earth Sciences Examiner, University of Southampton (1998-2000).

Research Interests (excluding Pliocene)

GCM approach to palaeoclimate change in Africa (with Prof. P.J. Valdes, Meteorology; Chevron Middle-East).

GCM approach to palaeoclimate change in Africa South of the Sahara (with Prof. P.J. Valdes, Meteorology; De Beers Marine).

Regional plumbing dynamics of the Wessex and Weald Basins: Defining the facies and sequence evolution integrating petrography, stable isotope and fluid inclusion data and generated models for fluid flow.

Sedimentology of platform-associated carbonate sequences in Spain and Italy.

Sedimentological and diagenetic modelling of chalk reservoirs.

Climate of the Mesozoic Era: a previous "greenhouse" Earth.