DTP Staff

David Pyle is a volcanologist based in the Department of Earth Sciences. His research focusses on the rates and impacts of volcanism, and on the statistical analysis of patterns of behaviour at active volcanoes. Current locations include the Southern Andean Volcanic Zone in Chile, The Northern Andean Volcanic Zone in Ecuador and Colombia, and the Ethiopian Rift.
 

Elizabeth Jeffers is a paleoecologist and mathematical modeller in the Department of Zoology.  Her research in the Oxford Long Term Ecology Laboratory investigates the biotic and abiotic processes that drive the dynamics of plant and animal species during periods of rapid environmental change. 

Richard Bailey is a lecturer in Geochronology, Director of the School of Geography and the Environment Luminescence Dating Laboratory. Dr Bailey's research is focused primarily on the development of Luminescence Dating techniques and their application to research topics in Quaternary science, including climate/environmental change, geomorphology and human evolution/dispersion. He also has a more general interest in quantitative methods and their application in physical geography.

Mike Bonsall is a University Lecturer (Reader) in Mathematical Biology and leads a research group (http:\\merg.zoo.ox.ac.uk) that focuses on integrating theoretical and empirical problems in the life sciences. The grop is enthusiastic about science, its dissemination and teaching. particular themes of research in the group range from problems in mammalian developmental biology and stem cell dynamics to evolutionary and ecological biology and even the dynamics of psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder.

Mark Pollard is Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art and Edward Hall Professor of Archeological Science. His research encompasses the application of physical sciences, particularly chemistry, within archaeology.  Although it covers many areas, most relevant to the area of this course are the investigation of biogeochemical processes and numerical applications in palaeoclimatic reconstruction.

Philip Stier is a University Lecturer in Atmospheric Physics and heads the Climate Processes group in the Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics. His research addresses physical climate processes in the context of anthropogenic perturbations to the earth system as an underlying cause of climate change and air pollution.

Andy Hector is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Plant Sciences with interests in biodiversity and its impacts on ecosystem functioning, stability and services.  He founded, and runs, the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment in Malaysia Borneo (sabahbiodiversityexperiment.org)

Ros Rickaby is a biogeochemist fascinated by the jigsaw of interactions between life and the environment.  Her primary research focuses on the feedbacks between the biology of microscopic photosynthetic algae of the oceans (the marine rainforests) and the atmospheric CO₂ and the Carbon cycle with implications for Earth's evolving climate.

Victoria Forth has worked in Graduate Studies at the university since 2010, first in the Zoology Department and then at the MPLS divisional office.  She has been involved with the DTP since its inception. She will be responsible for the day-to-day administration of the course including admissions, student progression, course administration,  finance, recruitment and the website.