Professor Gregory Price

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.

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

Marie Curie IO Fellowship €282,109 (with Dr Silvia Danise as Fellow) Marine Ecosystem Stability and Turnover (2014-2016)

NERC £396,429 (P-i) with Dr Stephen Grimes (Co-i) Carbonate clumped-isotopic constraints on marine temperatures during the Cretaceous. (2012-2015)

NERC Isotope Geosciences Laboratory £26,100 Dating of Early Cretaceous carbon isotope stratigraphy and the geologic time scale : A U-Pb CA-ID-TIMS zircon study from the Aysén Basin (Patagonia, Chile)(2013-2014)

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

European Commission's FPVI European-funded SYNTHESYS Grant €850 visit the Dept. of Paleontology and Geology, Hungarian Natural History Museum (2012)

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

European Commission's FPVI European-funded SYNTHESYS Grant €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).

Research groups

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