Dr. Phillip Jardine

Institute of Geology and Palaeontology – Palaeobotany
University of Münster
Heisenbergstr. 2
D-48149 Münster
Germany

jardine@uni-muenster.de
Tel.: +49 251 83-23933
Fax: +49 251 83-21739

 
 
 
 
 
 

• Curriculum Vitae

  Education

  10.2006 – 10.2011	Ph.D. in Cenozoic palynology University of Birmingham, UK Supervisor: Dr. Guy Harrington Thesis title: Spatial and temporal diversity trends in an extra-tropical, megathermal vegetation type: the early Paleogene pollen and spore record from the US Gulf Coast (available at http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/2953/).
  09.2005 – 09.2006	M.Sc. in Palaeobiology University of Bristol, UK Thesis supervisors: Dr Sarda Sahney and Professor Mike Benton Thesis title: The alpha diversity of ancient mammalian grassland communities
  10.2000 – 06.2003	B.Sc in Geology and Geography University of Birmingham, UK Dissertation title: The fabric of extinctions across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary
  09.1992 – 06.1999	St. Bartholomew’s Secondary School, Newbury, UK

  Employment

  05.2017 - present	Research Associate Palaeobotany Research Group, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.
  12.2016 – 04.2017	Postdoctoral Researcher Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Universität Potsdam, Germany. ERC funded ‘Monsoons of Asia caused Greenhouse to Icehouse Cooling’, awarded to Dr. Guillaume Dupont-Nivet (PI).
  06.2013 – 09.2016	Postdoctoral Research Associate School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Open University, UK. NERC funded ‘500,000 years of solar irradiance, climate and vegetation changes’, awarded to Dr William Gosling (PI).
  11.2011 – 05.2013	Postdoctoral Research Associate School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK. NSF funded ‘Bighorn Basin Coring Project’, awarded to Dr Will Clyde (PI), working with Dr Guy Harrington.
  10.2006 – 07.2011	Teaching support assistant (part-time) School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.

   

• Research Interests

  • Terrestrial palynology, primarily in the Cenozoic
  • Macroecology and biogeography
  • Palaeoclimatology and the development of palaeoclimate proxies
  • Pollen and spore chemistry
  • The application of ecological data analysis techniques to the fossil record

   

• Technical Expertise

  • Palaeontological/sedimentological sample collection in core repositories and in the field
  • Laboratory processing of palynological samples
  • Light and electron microscopy
  • Micro-FTIR analysis of palynomorphs
  • Data analysis: Familiarity with univariate and multivariate data exploration and statistics, model fitting including linear models, generalised linear models, additive models and mixed models, frequentist and Bayesian (using JAGS) approaches to model fitting, data simulation. Expertise in use of software package R.

   

• Field Experience

  07.2014	LacCore repository, Minneapolis, to sample Lake Bosumtwi sediment cores
  10.2013	Ghana, to recover and deploy pollen traps from vegetation study plots.
  05.2013	USGS, Virginia, to sample Paleogene cores from the US Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains.
  01.2011	MARUM, University of Bremen, part of science team describing, sampling and archiving cores as part of the NSF-funded Bighorn Basin Coring Project.
  02.2008	US Gulf Coast, for field and core sampling of Paleogene sediments in Texas, Mississippi and Alabama.
  01.2007	Rutgers University, New Jersey, to sample early Paleogene sediment cores.

   

• Peer-reviewed publications

  peer-reviewed publications

   

   

   

   

• Peer-review service

  • Chemical Papers
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Journal of the Geological Society of London
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
  • Palaeontology
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology