A Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Gianluca Badalini, and a Research Assistant, Miss Ruth Underdown. Dr Ian Carr arrived in january to take up a post as lecturer in the department. Ian already has considerable North Africa experience and he will also be part of the North Africa Research Group. Details on the new members of staff are listed below. In mid-2001, this will be augmented by award of the first of a number of PhD studentships.
Further experience includes mudlogging and field mapping.
Ian Carr Ian graduated from Leicester University with a BSc in Geology in 1993. This included a total of 18 weeks fieldwork in Greenland. This involved a total of 18 weeks fieldwork in Sinai. His research interests are developing high resolution sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic models of shallow marine and tidal sediments in extensional basins. He is currently a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University in Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy on the undergraduate and MSc program, and part of the North Africa Research Group.