Dr Colin North

Dr Colin North
Dr Colin North
Dr Colin North

B.Sc. (Hons) PhD CSci CGeol FGS

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
c.p.north@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273459
Office Address

School of Geoscience,
Meston Building Room 109,
Kings College, Aberdeen, AB24 3UE

School/Department
School of Geosciences

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Disabilities and Special Needs Advisor for School of Geosciences

Elected member of Senate: 2014-present

AAPG Student Chapter Faculty Advisor

Accreditation Officer

External Memberships

Geological Society of London Council: Secretary (Publications) 2014-2019

AAPG Bulletin: Senior Associate Editor 2012-present; Associate Editor 1999-2012

Chief Editor for AAPG Special Publications, and Chair AAPG publications committee 2011-2015

AAPG: Officer Candidate for post of Elected Editor (2013-16)

GeoscienceWorld Board of Directors: Vice-chair: 2019-present; Chair 2010-2014; Treasurer 2009-10; member 2008-9

Journal of Sedimentary Research:
Co-Chief Editor 2004-8, Associate Editor 2000-4

SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology: Member of Council 2004-8

Research

Research Overview

Rivers and their sedimentary record, and their coastal and shallow marine interactions, with special emphasis on dryland environments (AUDRI project)

Continental sedimentary environments in general; early terrestrial diagenesis

Subsurface hydrocarbon reservoir description, prediction, and quantitative modelling

Analogue outcrop studies

PhD supervision: 14 completed. External PhD examiner: 11, at institutions world-wide

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Petroleum Data Management MSc (full-time and online part-time programmes)  - Programme Director

GL5033 / GL5534 Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience (Course Coordinator)

GL5054 / GL5554 Fundamentals of Petroleum Geoscience - online (Course Coordinator & tutor)

GL5911 / GL5912 Final Independent Data Management Project  - (Course Coordinator and tutor)

GL3521 Sedimentology (Course Coordinator & tutor)

GL2510 Field and Laboratory Techniques & Arran Field Trip (Course Coordinator, tutor, field trip leader)

GL2015 Petrology (Sedimentary processes and petrology components tutor and Course co-Coordinator)

Publications

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  • Geology of Reskajeage Farm quarry (NIREX research site on Cornish slate)

    Hancock, P. L., North, C. P.
    Harwell, UK: NIREX Safety Studies Report
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
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