Gregory Price

Dr Gregory Price

Job title: Associate Professor (Reader) in Environmental Geology, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Technology)
Address: Room 105, Fitzroy, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752584771
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233117
Email: G.Price@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
February 2011 – November 2011. Visiting Scholar, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia.
February 1998 – Present Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Environmental Sedimentology, University of Plymouth.
October 1994 – January 1998. Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Geosciences, Queen's University of Belfast, UK.
February 1989 – September 1989. Assistant in Geophysical Data Centre, British Petroleum, London, UK.

Qualifications & background
1994 PhD. Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, University of Reading.
1990 MSc. Sedimentology, Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology, University of Reading
1988 BSc. Geography and Geology West London Institute of Higher Education.

Professional membership
Member of the Geological Society of America
Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Roles on external bodies
Editorial Board Cretaceous Research, Proceedings of the Geologists Association
NERC Peer Review College Member (2005-2008)
Secretary of the British Sedimentological Research Group (1998-2002)
Member of IGCP Project 463, Upper Cretaceous oceanic Red Beds: response to ocean/climate global change
Member of the Oxfordian Working Group of the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy

Teaching interests

Sedimentology

Stratigraphy

Isotope geochemistry

Fieldwork Skills
Environmental Change

Staff serving as external examiners

PhD 2002 Queens University Belfast
PhD 2004 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
PhD 2006 James Cook University

Research interests
My current research involves the investigation of past climate and environmental change (chiefly during the Jurassic and Cretaceous) and more specifically understanding larger perturbations in the Earth’s physical and biological systems; abrupt climate change during globally warm intervals, extreme events in polar environments and the timing of the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations. I am also interested in the preservation of climatic signals in marine fossils and how these data are used to reconstruct ancient ecosystems. A number of projects principally involving the integration of stratigraphy, sedimentology and the use of oxygen, carbon and strontium isotopes are currently being undertaken via the analysis of material from Deep Sea Drilling Project/Ocean Drilling Project sites; the eastern sub Urals, Siberia, Spitsbergen, Iran, the Volga River, Russia, the Atacama region, Chile, Argentina, the Crimea, and various locations within the UK.

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Earth Sciences (CRES)
Palaeontology and Palaeoenvironments

Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Matthew Jones 2004 PhD "Holocene Palaeolimnology of Western Anatolian Lake Basins"
Jodie Fisher 2006 PhD "Palaeoenvironmental change surrounding the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary"
Elizabeth Nunn 2007 PhD "Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Climates of Northern High Latitudes"
Timothy Kearsey 2009 PhD "Multi-proxy palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event"
Melanie Bugler 2011 PhD "An investigation into use of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus as a recorder of past climatic change"

Grants & contracts
NERC £453,223 with Dr RJ Twitchett The evolution of modern marine ecosystems: environmental controls on their structure and function (2011-2014).

Leverhulme Research Fellowship £42,697 Evaluating high latitude climate during Cretaceous (2010-2011)

European Commission's FPVI European-funded SYNTHESYS scheme €830 to visit the Department of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum (2010)

Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship, €172,434 with Dr RJ Twitchett Early Mesozoic Biodiversity and Climate Change (EMBiCC)(2009)

European Commission's FPVI European-funded SYNTHESYS scheme €730 to visit the Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (2008)

NERC £46,265 With Dr RJ Twitchett (Project PI) Global warming and the Late Permian mass extinction event (2008-2009)

NERC ICP Facility £3,000 Geochemical testing of the warm Cretaceous high latitude climate paradigm (2006)

Leverhulme Trust £58,492 Tephrochronology of marine sediments around the volcanic island of Montserrat (2006-2007) (with Prof. M.B Hart; Dr C. Smart and Prof. S Sparks)

NERC Isotope Laboratory £22,000 Late Jurassic-early Cretaceous high latitude climates (2005)

National Geographic $17,500 High latitude Cretaceous climate change, Svalbard (2005-2006)

NATO $1,600 High latitude Cretaceous climate change (2003-2004)

NERC Isotope Laboratory £35,500 Chemostratigraphy of the middle Cretaceous (2002-2003)

The Royal Society £8,437 Early Cretaceous climate and oceanographic change, Atacama region, Chile (2002-2003)

The Royal Society £1,108 High latitude Cretaceous climate of Western Siberia (2001)

NERC. £9,820. Early Cretaceous equatorial temperatures: implications for meridonal heat transport and polar climates (1999- 2000).

Conferences organised

Session T116. Links between Mesozoic Climate and Biodiversity. Geological Society of America 2010 Annual Meeting,

Co-Convenor of the 8th International Symposium on the Cretaceous, University of Plymouth, September 2009.

Symposium SSP6 Phanerozoic climate: forcing factors and feedbacks between biosphere and geosphere EGU General Assembly 2008

British Sedimentological Research Group AGM 2001, Plymouth University

Symposium C3 From Icehouse to Greenhouse: records, causes and consequences of extreme climatic events in the last 750 MA. European Union of Geosciences, 2001

Symposium B9, Records of Mesozoic climate change. European Union of Geosciences, 1999

Books

Price, GD. (2002) The distribution of trace metal pollutants within intertidal sediments of the Tamar Estuary, SW England.

Chapters

Price, GD. & Grimes, ST. (2007) 'New approaches for quantifying the Cretaceous terrestrial climate record' in Williams M,Haywood AM,Gregory FJ,Schmidt DN (ed.) Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change Geological Society Publishing House pp 225 - 234

Fisher, JK., Hart, MB. & Price, GD. (2001) 'New data on the distribution of foraminifera across the Late Cenomanian 'anoxic event'.' in Ferre BFMaTJ (ed.) Colloque sur le Cénomanien pp 46 - 49

Conference Papers

Price, GD. & Passey, BH. (2010) 'Carbonate clumped-isotope paleothermometry of sub-Arctic early Cretaceous fossils' Conference on Goldschmidt 2010 - Earth, Energy, and the Environment. Knoxville, TN 13/06/2010 - 18/06/2010 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD pp A832 - A832

Journals

Articles

Price, GD., Fozy, I., Janssen, NMM. & Palfy, J. (2011) 'Late Valanginian-Barremian (Early Cretaceous) palaeotemperatures inferred from belemnite stable isotope and Mg/Ca ratios from Bersek Quarry (Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubian Range, Hungary)' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 305 (1-4), pp 1 - 9 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.007

De Jonghe, A., Hart, MB., Grimes, ST., Mitlehner, AG., Price, GD. & Smart, CW. (2011) 'Middle Eocene diatoms from Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight, England: stratigraphy and preservation' P GEOLOGIST ASSOC 122 (3), pp 472 - 483 , DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.02.003

Hodgson, E., Grimes, ST., Price, GD., Fitzpatrick, MEJ., Hart, MB. & Leng, MJ. (2011) 'Paleogene carbon isotope excursions in the Bunkers Hill borehole: Hampshire Basin, UK' P GEOLOGIST ASSOC 122 (3), pp 460 - 471 , DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2011.01.005

Price, GD. (2010) 'Carbon-isotope stratigraphy and temperature change during the Early-Middle Jurassic (Toarcian-Aalenian), Raasay, Scotland, UK' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 285 (3-4), pp 255 - 263 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.11.018

Fozy, I., Janssen, NMM., Price, GD., Knauer, J. & Palfy, J. (2010) 'Integrated isotope and biostratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous section from the Bakony Mountains (Transdanubian Range, Hungary): A new Tethyan record of the Weissert event' CRETACEOUS RES 31 (6), pp 525 - 545 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.07.003

Nunn, EV. & Price, GD. (2010) 'Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) stable isotopes (delta O-18, delta C-13) and Mg/Ca ratios: New palaeoclimate data from Helmsdale, northeast Scotland' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 292 (1-2), pp 325 - 335 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.04.015

Rogov, MA. & Price, GD. (2010) 'New stratigraphic and isotope data on the Kimmeridgian-Volgian boundary beds of the Subpolar Urals, Western Siberia' GEOL Q 54 (1), pp 33 - 40

Price, GD. & Teece, C. (2010) 'Reconstruction of Jurassic (Bathonian) palaeosalinity using stable isotopes and faunal associations' J GEOL SOC LONDON 167 (6), pp 1199 - 1208 , DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-029

Nunn, EV., Price, GD., Grocke, DR., Baraboshkin, EY., Leng, MJ. & Hart, MB. (2010) 'The Valanginian positive carbon isotope event in Arctic Russia: Evidence from terrestrial and marine isotope records and implications for global carbon cycling' CRETACEOUS RES 31 (6), pp 577 - 592 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.07.007

Price, GD. & Nunn, EV. (2010) 'Valanginian isotope variation in glendonites and belemnites from Arctic Svalbard: Transient glacial temperatures during the Cretaceous greenhouse' GEOLOGY 38 (3), pp 251 - 254 , DOI: 10.1130/G30593.1

Price, GD. & Rogov, MA. (2009) 'An isotopic appraisal of the Late Jurassic greenhouse phase in the Russian Platform' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 273 (1-2), pp 41 - 49 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.11.011

Bugler, MJ., Grimes, ST., Leng, MJ., Rundle, SD., Price, GD., Hooker, JJ. & Collinson, ME. (2009) 'Experimental determination of a Viviparus contectus thermometry equation.' Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 23 (18), pp 2939 - 2951 , DOI: 10.1002/rcm.4203

Kearsey, T., Twitchett, RJ., Price, GD. & Grimes, ST. (2009) 'Isotope excursions and palaeotemperature estimates from the Permian/Triassic boundary in the Southern Alps (Italy)' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 279 (1-2), pp 29 - 40 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.04.015

Price, GD., Wilkinson, D., Hart, MB., Page, KN. & Grimes, ST. (2009) 'Isotopic analysis of coexisting Late Jurassic fish otoliths and molluscs: Implications for upper-ocean water temperature estimates' GEOLOGY 37 (3), pp 215 - 218 , DOI: 10.1130/G25377A.1

Price, GD., Twitchett, RJ., Smale, C. & Marks, V. (2009) 'ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS OF THE LIFE HISTORY OF THE ENIGMATIC SQUID SPIRULA SPIRULA, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDIES OF FOSSIL CEPHALOPODS' PALAIOS 24 (5-6), pp 273 - 279 , DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-067r

Nunn, EV., Price, GD., Hart, MB., Page, KN. & Leng, MJ. (2009) 'Isotopic signals from Callovian-Kimmeridgian (Middle-Upper Jurassic) belemnites and bulk organic carbon, Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Scotland' J GEOL SOC LONDON 166, pp 633 - 641 , DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492008-067

Price, GD. & Page, KN. (2008) 'A carbon and oxygen isotopic analysis of molluscan faunas from the Callovian-Oxfordian boundary at Redcliff Point, Weymouth, Dorset: implications for belemnite behaviour' P GEOLOGIST ASSOC 119, pp 153 - 160

Price, GD., Dashwood, B., Taylor, GK., Kalin, RM. & Ogle, N. (2008) 'Carbon isotope and magneto stratigraphy of the Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian) Pabellon Formation, Chanarcillo Basin, Chile' CRETACEOUS RES 29 (2), pp 183 - 191 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.008

Price, GD., Vowles-Sheridan, N. & Anderson, MW. (2008) 'Lower jurassic mud volcanoes and methane, Kilve, Somerset, UK' P GEOLOGIST ASSOC 119, pp 193 - 201

Lazo, DG., Aguirre-Urreta, MB., Price, GD., Rawson, PF., Ruffell, AH. & Ogle, N. (2008) 'Palaeosalinity variations in the Early Cretaceous of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina: Evidence from oxygen isotopes and palaeoecological analysis' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 260 (3-4), pp 477 - 493 , DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.12.008

Aguirre-Urreta, MB., Price, GD., Ruffell, AH., Lazo, DG., Kalin, RM., Ogle, N. & Rawson, PF. (2008) 'Southern hemisphere early cretaceous (Valanginian-Early barremian) carbon and oxygen isotope curves from the neuquen basin, Argentina' CRETACEOUS RES 29 (1), pp 87 - 99 , DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.04.002

van Breugel, Y., Schouten, S., Tsikos, H., Erba, E., Price, GD. & Damste, JSS. (2007) 'Synchronous negative carbon isotope shifts in marine and terrestrial biomarkers at the onset of the early Aptian oceanic anoxic event 1a: Evidence for the release of C-13-depleted carbon into the atmosphere' Paleoceanography 22 (1), p Art. No. PA1210

Meister, C., Aberhan, M., Blau, J., Dommergues, JL., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Hailwood, EA., Hart, M., Hesselbo, SP., Hounslow, MW., Hylton, M., Morton, N., Page, K. & Price, GD. (2006) 'The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic), Wine Haven, Yorkshire, UK' Episodes 29 (2), pp 93 - 106

Price, GD., Winkle, K. & Gehrels, WR. (2005) 'A geochemical record of the mining history of the Erme Estuary, south Devon, UK' Marine Pollution Bulletin 50 (12), pp 1706 - 1712

Hart, MB., Callapez, PM., Fisher, JK., Hannant, K., Monteiro, JF., Price, GD. & Watkinson, MP. (2005) 'Micropalaeontology and stratigraphy of the cenomanian/Turonian boundary in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal' Journal of Iberian Geology 31(2), pp 295 - 310

Fisher, JK., Price, GD., Hart, MB. & Leng, MJ. (2005) 'Stable isotope analysis of the Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) oceanic anoxic event in the Crimea' Cretaceous Research 26 (6), pp 853 - 863

Hart, MB., Feist, SE., Hakansson, E., Heinberg, C., Price, GD., Leng, MJ. & Watkinson, MP. (2005) 'The Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary succession at Stevns Klint, Denmark: Foraminifers and stable isotope stratigraphy' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 224 (1-3), pp 6 - 26

Grocke, DR., Price, GD., Robinson, SA., Baraboshkin, E., Ruffell, AH. & Mutterlose, J. (2005) 'The Valanginian (Early Cretaceous) positive carbon-isotope event recorded in terrestrial plants' Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240, pp 495 - 50

McArthur, JM., Mutterlose, J., Price, GD., Rawson, PF., Ruffell, A. & Thirlwall, MF. (2004) 'Belemnites of Valanginian, Hauterivian and Barremian age: Sr-isotope stratigraphy, composition (Sr-87/Sr-86, delta C-13, delta O-18, Na, Sr, Mg), and palaeo-oceanography' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 202 (3-4), pp 253 - 272

Price, GD. & Mutterlose, J. (2004) 'Isotopic signals from late Jurassic-early Cretaceous (Volgian-Valanginian) sub-Arctic belemnites, Yatria River, Western Siberia' Journal of the Geological Society 161, pp 959 - 968

Hart, MB., Feist, SE., Price, GD. & Leng, MJ. (2004) 'Reappraisal of the K-T boundary succession at Stevns Klint, Denmark' Journal of the Geological Society 161, pp 885 - 892

Meister, C., Blau, J., Dommergues, JL., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Hart, M., Hesselbo, SP., Hylton, M., Page, K. & Price, G. (2003) 'A proposal for the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Pliensbachian Stage (Lower Jurassic)' Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 96 (2), pp 275 - 297

Grocke, DR., Price, GD., Ruffell, AH., Mutterlose, J. & Baraboshkin, E. (2003) 'Isotopic evidence for Late Jurassic-Early cretaceous climate change' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 202 (1-2), pp 97 - 118

Price, GD. (2003) 'New constraints upon isotope variation during the early Cretaceous (Barremian-Cenomanian) from the Pacific Ocean' Geological Magazine 140 (5), pp 513 - 522

Hart, MB., Hylton, MD., Oxford, MJ., Price, GD., Hudson, W. & Smart, CW. (2003) 'The search for the origin of the planktic Foraminifera' Journal of the Geological Society 160, pp 341 - 343

Price, GD. & Hart, MB. (2002) 'Isotopic evidence for Early to mid-Cretaceous ocean temperature variability' Marine Micropaleontology 46 (1-2), pp 45 - 58

Ruffell, AH., Price, GD., Mutterlose, J., Kessels, K., Baraboshkin, E. & Gröcke, DR. (2002) 'Palaeoenvironmental sensitivity of clay minerals, stable isotopes and calcareous nannofossils: evidence for palaeoclimatic change during the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous, Volga Basin, SE Russia' Geological Journal 37, pp 17 - 33

Price, GD. & Gröcke, DR. (2002) 'Strontium-isotope stratigraphy and oxygen-and carbon-isotope variation during the Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous of the Falkland Plateau, South Atlantic' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 183, pp 209 - 222

Sellwood, BW., Valdes, PJ. & Price, GD. (2000) 'Geological evaluation of multiple general circulation model simulations of Late Jurassic palaeoclimate' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 156 (1-2), pp 147 - 160

Price, GD., Ruffell, AH., Jones, CE., Kalin, RM. & Mutterlose, J. (2000) 'Isotopic evidence for temperature variation during the early Cretaceous (late Ryazanian-mid-Hauterivian)' J GEOL SOC LONDON 157, pp 335 - 343

Price, GD. & Hart, MB. (1999) 'Low-latitude sea-surface temperatures for the mid-Cretaceous and the evolution of planktic foraminifera: Comment' GEOLOGY 27 (9), pp 857 - 857

Price, GD., Valdes, PJ. & Sellwood, BW. (1998) 'A comparison of GCM simulated Cretaceous 'greenhouse' and 'icehouse' climates: implications for the sedimentary record' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 142 (3-4), pp 123 - 138

Price, GD. (1998) 'Isotopic variation in fossils and matrix of the Cretaceous Red Chalk at Speeton and South Ferriby, Yorkshire, England' P YORKS GEOL SOC 52, pp 107 - 112

Price, GD. (1998) 'Prediction of modern bauxite occurrence: implications for climate reconstruction - reply' PALAEOGEOGR PALAEOCL 142 (3-4), pp 257 - 258

Reviews

Price, GD. (1999) 'The evidence and implications of polar ice during the Mesozoic' EARTH-SCI REV 48 (3), pp 183 - 210