Professor Ian Jarvis

About

I completed my doctorate in the Department of Geology & Mineralogy and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.  I have worked as a lecturer at Glasgow University, a post-doctoral researcher at City of London Polytechnic, and a research scientist at the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, specialising in sedimentary geology and geochemistry. 

Since moving to Kingston I have developed research on sedimentary processes in the ocean and their relation to past global environmental change. A particular focus is the Greenhouse World of the Cretaceous Period, 66-145 million years ago. Can the past be the key to the future? I work with collaborators in the UK, Canada, continental Europe, Tunisia and the USA and am a member of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy.

My research is funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council and industry, and I work as a consultant to the petroleum industry.

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Academic responsibilities

Professor of Geochemistry

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) London
  • DPhil Oxon
  • CGeol
  • FGS
  • FMinSoc

Teaching and learning

Research