William Foster
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After graduating recently with a 1st Class Masters of Physical Geography
with honours at the University of Hull I started a PhD at Plymouth University
with Richard Twitchett and Gregory Price. My PhD research involves collecting
novel paleontological data from various palaeolatitudes and different shelf
environments from around the world. High resolution palaeoecological studies
will be performed on the shelly macro and microfauna through field sampling
and/or thin section analyses. Emphasis will be placed on rigorous statistical
analyses of the data, and importance given to the consideration of rock-record and
other potential biases. Palaeoecological changes and trends will be compared
between localities and in comparison to a variety of palaeoenvironmental and
climatic proxies.
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