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The Harker Geological Society publications and archives.

A list of staff at the University of Hull Geology Department until its closure and re-opening and closure.

compiled by Mike Horne.

The Department was formed in 1948 as a sub-department of the Department of Geography of University College Hull, which taugth University of London degrees. The University got its charter in 1954 and could then award its own drgerees. In 1963 geology was upgraded to the status of being a proper Departmenr in its own right and the first professor was appointed. As part of a national rationalisation of geology in universities the Department closed in 1988. Some lecturers were retained on a part-time basis to teach out the undergraduate degrees until 1990. 

The Department re-opened in 2014 and the University offered a geology degree until 2021 when the same degree was renamed Earth Sciences.

(A work in Progress)

Ian Alexander - micropalaeontology preparation 1970 and 1980s

Dr Norman Angus - igneous petrology 1958 to closure when he retired.

Mark Anderson - rock preparation and sectioning 1980s onwards

Tony Benfield - late 1980s

Dj Jime Best - sedimentologist 1983 until closure when he transferred to Leeds University

Prof Dave Bond - onwards

Geoffrey Bond - director of the Department 1948 - 1949

Cecilia Brasier (nee Clements) - curator 1972-1979

Dr Martin Brasier - micropalaeontology, palaeoeology and Pre Cambrian 1975 until closure when he transferred to Oxford University

Dr Anna Bird - 2014 onwards

Harold Chamberlain - workshop technician 1960s until retirment

Bernard Conway - technician 1948

Mr George de Boer - Quaternary scientist and geographer 1946 to 1983

Prof O Bulman - Head of Department 1960s

Dr Bryony Caswell - 2018 to present

Dr Eddie Dempsey - structural geologist 2017 onwards

Prof Desmond Donavon - Head of Department 1963-1966

Prof Ansel Dunham - industrial mineralogist 1978 until closure when he transferred to Leicester University

Dr Arthur Fraser - mineralogist 1967 until closure

Prof Lynne Frostick - sedimentology 1999 onwards

John Garner - photographer

Dr Huw Griffiths - Quaternary micropalaeontologist 1995 to 2002

Pat (Jock) Henderson - petrology and mineralogy 1950 -1957.

Mike Holiday - chief technician 1957 until retirment

Billy Holmes - technician 1950s

Professor Michael House - stratigrapher and Head Of Department 1967 until closure when he transferred to Southampton University

Mollie Lawson - Departmental Secretary

Paul McSherry - draughtsman and later chief technician 1970s onwards

Richard (Dick) Middleton - geochemist

Prof John Neale - palaeontology and micropalaeontolohy 1949 until closure when he retired

Prof Dan Parsons - sedimentologist 2011 to 2022

Dr Martyn Pedley - carbonate sedimentologist 1984 onwards

Dr Lewis Penny - Quaternary scientist 1949 to 1980

Mark (Marek) Piasecki - metamorphic geology 1957 until closure when he transferred to Keele University

Andy Radford  - rock preparation and sectioning 1980s

Dr Mike Rogerson - sedimentologist ?2006 to 2020

Dr Peter Scott - economic geology and industrial mineralogy 1972 until closure when he transferred to Leicester University and later Exeter University

Tony Sinclair - scanning electron microscope 1970s onwards

Dr Derek Siveter -  curator 1979 until closure when he transferred to Oxford University

Dr Steve Temperley - geophysics and structural geology 19804 until closure when he transferred to Leicester University

Dr Brian Waugh - sedimentologist 1966 until 1983

Dr Mike Widowson - volcanologist 2015 onwards

Fred Wilkinson - electron microprobe 1980s

Dr Rebecca Williams - metamorphic petrology 2013 onwards

Dr Paul Young - Geophysics 1980 - 1984

 

Sources -

my memories

attendance list for the Dinner in Honour of the Retirement of Dt L F Penny 5th July 1980

A Stratigraphy of the Department by Prof Neale, Harker Journal 1989.

A Stratigraphy of the Department, part 2 by John Neale. Journal of the Harker Geological Society, volume 14, number 1, Spring 1990

Harkerama No. 2.  March 1983

Linkedin online personal biographies

 

 

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