A. Lotter, Dept. of Palaeoecology, Lab. of Palaeobotany and Palynology, University of Utrecht, Budapestlaan 4, 3584 CD Utrecht, Netherlands, Fax: 030 2535096
Fields of interest: Neogene vegetation and environmental change, Quaternary pollen and plant macrofossil analyses,
Human impact on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, Resilience, disturbance and recovery of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, Numerical
palaeoecologyQuaternary stratigraphy of continental and pyroclastic deposits, processes of re-sedimentation of volcaniclastic material,
tephrostratigraphy and tephrochronology of marine and continental sedimentary successions and stable isotope paleoclimatology. In the
last years he was particularly involved in studying stable isotope geochemistry of cave concretions (speleothems), lake deposits, pedogenic
carbonate and land snail shells.
M. Stephenson, British Geological Survey, Nottingham, Keyworth, NG12 5GG, UK, Fax: +44 115 936 3200
Publisher's Note
We are most pleased to introduce a third member of the Editorial team, Dr. Mike
Stephenson. Mike has been appointed to the team in order to make sure that the increasing inflow of manuscripts continues to be handled
as quickly and efficiently as in the past. As not all of our readers will know Mike personally, his introduction printed below will certainly
help to bridge this gap.
Dr Mike Stephenson, a Principal Researcher with the British Geological Survey (BGS), came rather late to
stratigraphy and palynology after having worked as a teacher in rural Africa for many years. In 1995, however, he began an MSc and PhD
in palynology. Since starting work with BGS 9 years ago, he has divided his time between collaborative Government-funded blue sky research
and stratigraphic palynology for oil companies. Mike's PhD studies were carried out in connection with Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)
and Saudi Aramco, and he has continued to develop his influence in the Middle East, having published many papers on the region, as well
as teaching courses in Middle Eastern universities and supervising British and Middle Eastern PhD students. Mike's main area of expertise
is pre-Khuff (Devonian-Permian) stratigraphy and palynology in the Middle East, but he's also well known for work in the Carboniferous
and Devonian of Britain and NW Europe. Since 2001 Mike has worked increasingly in multidisciplinary teams investigating palaeoenvironment
and climate change with isotopes, organic geochemistry, radiometric dating and cyclicity. Mike also works in capacity-building of geoscience
institutions in developing and post-conflict countries (e.g. Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea) and has many contacts in the natural resource
sector in these regions. He'd like to develop and encourage multidisciplinary studies and new uses for palynology in stratigraphy, climate
and palaeoenvironmental change, and accepted the position as Editor-in-Chief at Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology chiefly to further
these kinds of studies. Mike lives in Nottingham and enjoys walking, climbing and motorcycling. He has two sons who are both taller than
him, and is learning to live with this. We are delighted to welcome Mike Stephenson to the editorial team and would like to take this
opportunity to wish him much success in his new position.
D. Cantrill, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, South Yarra, VIC, Australia
David Cantrill. Chief Botanist and Director, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens
Melbourne Prior to moving to Melbourne in 2006 I worked at the Swedish Museum of Natural History as a senior curator in the Department
of Palaeobotany, and at the British Antarctic Survey as a Senior Research Scientist. I have worked extensively on Southern Hemisphere
Mesozoic and Tertiary macrofloras in particular those of the Antarctic but also from Australia, New Zealand and southern Africa. I also
have interests in Permian floras from Antarctica. In particular, I have integrated sedimentological information with plant occurrences
to generate a better understanding of high latitude palaeoecology. More recently I have become interested in integrating pollen morphology
into phylogenies of extant plants as a way of interpreting the fossil record and elucidating the evolutionary history of key southern
hemisphere groups.
F. Paris, Université de Rennes I, Rennes cedex, France
Fields of interests: Expert on chitinozoans; Biostratigraphy of Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian strata
from northern Gondwana; Early Palaeozoic palaeobiogeography; Carbone stable isotopes and palaleoenvironments. Investigated regions:
South western and Central Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Ukraine), North Africa (Algeria, Libya), Turkey, Middle
East (Saudi Arabia, Oman), South America (Bolivia, Brazil).
S. Sugita, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
Fields of interests: Quaternary palynology, Quaternary palaeoecology, ecology, forest ecology, computer
modelling and simulation, numerical methods, theory of pollen analysis, quantitative reconstruction of vegetation and landscape, forest
dynamics.
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