Professor Gregory Price is the Postgraduate Research Coordinator (SoGEES) (2019 - present) and was the Associate Head of School (Research) (2017–2019), Visiting Scholar, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. February 2011–November 2011. He is a Member of the Berriasian Working Group of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy; Deputy Director NERC ARIES DTP and a Committee member of the NERC Ion Micro-Probe Steering Group.

His research involves the investigation of past climate and environmental change (chiefly during the Jurassic and Cretaceous) and more specifically understanding larger perturbations in the Earth’s physical and biological systems; abrupt climate change during globally warm intervals, extreme events in polar environments and the timing of the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations and seeks to address questions such as

How warm is warm in a greenhouse world?

How reliable are the climatic signals preserved in marine fossils and how these data are used to reconstruct ancient ecosystems?

What triggers OAEs and carbon isotope excursions?

What are the likely environmental consequences of increased CO2

Professor Gregory Price has extensive international experience. He has actively contributed to projects principally involving the integration of stratigraphy, sedimentology, petrology and clumped isotopes with the analysis of material from Deep Sea Drilling Project/Ocean Drilling Project sites; the eastern sub Urals, Siberia, Spitsbergen, Spain, France, Morocco and various locations within the UK.

Supervised Research Degrees

Matthew Jones 2004 PhD "Holocene Palaeolimnology of Western Anatolian Lake Basins" Jodie Fisher 2006 PhD "Palaeoenvironmental change surrounding the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary" Elizabeth Nunn 2007 PhD "Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Climates of Northern High Latitudes" Timothy Kearsey 2009 PhD "Multi-proxy palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event" Melanie Bugler 2011 PhD "An investigation into use of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus as a recorder of past climatic change" Will Foster 2015 PhD "Quantitative palaeoecology of the late Permian mass extinction and subsequent recovery"Mohammed Chaanda. 2016 PhD "Cenozoic Terrestrial palaeoenvironmental change: an investigation of the of the Bovey and Petrockstowe Basin, south west UK" Madeleine Vickers 2017 PhD "Stratigraphic and geochemical expression of Early Cretaceous environmental change in Arctic Svalbard" Wycliff Tupiti 2021 PhD "Rare metal resources in polymetallic nodules from the Pacific Ocean"

Teaching

My teaching interests are focussed on a number of key areas of student learning at the University of Plymouth: (i) Sedimentology and sedimentary geochemistry (ii) Stratigraphy and environmental change (iii) Isotope geochemistry and palaeoclimates (iv) Fieldwork Skills My teaching is a mix of taught and practical classes and fieldwork with a strong emphasis on linking my teaching to my research.