B.Sc. (Hons) PhD CSci CGeol FGS
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- 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
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Disabilities and Special Needs Advisor for School of Geosciences
Elected member of Senate: 2014-present
AAPG Student Chapter Faculty Advisor
Accreditation Officer
- External Memberships
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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 2000-4SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology: Member of Council 2004-8
- Research
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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
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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)