Seds Online Great Debate: Mud, it’s just pointless!

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at Durham University. She uses direct monitoring to understand turbidity currents in the mud-rich Congo submarine fan, with a focus on how these flows transport and bury particulate organic carbon. Meg completed her PhD at Bangor University, using laboratory experiments to investigate the fluid dynamics and deposits of clay-laden turbidity currents. Having been stuck in the mud for her whole career, Meg will be arguing that this is the best grain-size of all!

Chief Editor of Sedimentology, handling papers on carbonates, microbial carbonates, Precambrian systems, and a variety of other topics. He is also chair of the organising committee for this conference. This means he now knows things like the maximum capacity of a forklift truck at the University of Aberdeen; how to purchase a big TV through the University’s complex finance system; and what’s on the menu at the conference dinner. He has some familiarity with mud – both modern and ancient, and in the classroom and at home – and he thinks we would probably be better off without it.

William McMahon

A postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge. He combines fieldwork with techniques in electron microscopy to look to understand how rock weathering has changed across geological timescales. He’s particularly interested in Palaeozoic plant evolution, and their sedimentological and weathering impacts.

John Reijmer
MSc – 1986: Mesozoic: Tectonic processes and sedimentation patterns; PhD – 1991: Triassic & Recent: Carbonate gravity deposits; Full Prof. – 2005. Research themes: Carboniferous to Recent: Carbonates and petrophysics; Seismic modelling outcrops; Carbonates and fractures; Carbonates and fluid flow; Carbonate gravity deposits. Countries: The Netherlands, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, U.S.A., Belgium.