Jonathan David Paul
University College London
Department of Earth Sciences
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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D.o.B: July 17th, 1988
Nationality: British
Employment
2015 – present: Research Fellow, Dept. Earth Sciences, University College London
Global models of mantle convection; effects of dynamic topography on climate, sea level, and basin
formation.
2014 – 2015: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Developing inverse models of landscape development in Africa and Madagascar.
Education
2014: PhD in Geophysics, University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
- Dissertation entitled ‘Dynamic Topography and Drainage of Africa and Madagascar’. Supervised
by Prof. Nicky White, funded by BP Exploration
- Developed numerical models describing the effect of mantle convection upon surface topography
- Designed and led a 4-week field campaign to Madagascar, sampling and radiometrically dating
uplifted corals, for model validation
- 6 weeks’ experience working with Exploration Access (upstream) team at BP
- 5 grants for conference attendance and fieldwork, totalling £5,800
- Over 200 hours’ teaching experience, including lecturing, supervising, and leading fieldwork
2010: MSci (BSc + MSc) in Geophysics (First Class Honours), Imperial College London
- Principal study areas: Geodynamics (lithosphere); Tectonics; Hydrogeology; Engineering Geology
- M.Sci Dissertation (2009–10), supervised by Prof. Martin Blunt, entitled ‘Towards a new sustainable source of freshwater for London: Wastewater flow through the Chalk’ drew together laboratory
work, outcrop-scale modelling, and GIS-based field data, to identify a new sustainable, economically viable source of potable water in the London Basin.
2006: A-Levels, Marling School, Stroud
Mathematics [A], Geography [A], Physics [A], French [A]
Advanced Extension Award in French [merit]
2004: GCSEs, Marling School, Stroud
12 A* grades
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Fellowships and Awards
03/2015
Travel Grant
Value £250. Cambridge Philosophical Society
03/2015
Daniel Pidgeon Fund
Value £1,115. To support field work.
Geological Society of London
11/2012
Rouse Ball Fund
Value £805. To support field work and conference participation.
Trinity College, Cambridge University
09/2012
Travel Grant
Value £700. Royal Astronomical Society
02/2012
Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society
11/2011
Robert Wright Fund
Value £1,500. For a geological field campaign.
Trinity College, Cambridge University
12/2010
Rouse Ball Fund
Value £1,000. To support field work and conference participation.
Trinity College, Cambridge University
11/2010
Fellow, Geological Society of London
06/2010
Ernest Edward Glorney Scholarship
Value £2,000. An annual award given to the student with the highest aggregate mark at
the end of their undergraduate studies within the Faculty of Engineering.
A.G. Charleton Institution of Mining and Metallurgy Prize
For all-round excellence and scholarship in the Earth Sciences.
Earth Science and Engineering Student Centenary Prize
Value £200. For the best Master’s Project in the Royal School of Mines.
Imperial College London
01/2010
Member, American Geophysical Union
06/2009
Lyell Essay Prize
Value £1,000. Awarded for first place in a geological essay-writing competition.
Geological Society of London
01/2009
Royal School of Mines Ambassador Scholarship (for two years)
Combined value £400.
10/2007
R Stoddart Longcroft Prize
Value £200. Awarded for obtaining the highest overall first-year mark.
Murchison Medal
For outstanding proficiency in Geology.
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
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Publications
Peer-reviewed
Total citations / h-index / i10-index : 49 / 3 / 3
12 Gulamali M.Y., J.D. Paul, S. Azizmohammadi and S.K. Matthäi, 2015. Scale dependence of effective
permeability in naturally fractured reservoirs. Submitted to AAPG Bulletin
11 Paul J.D., N. White, L. Robinson, P. Spooner, R.A. Rambeloson and R. Rakotondrazary, 2015. Coastal
Uplift of Madagascar. Journal of Geophysical Research
10 Paul J.D. and C.M. Eakin, 2015. Mantle Upwelling beneath Madagascar: Evidence from Receiver
Function Analysis and Shear Wave Splitting. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
9 Paul J.D., 2015. The red island: Madagascar’s unique landscape. Geography 100(3) 174–179
8 Paul J.D., 2015. High-resolution geological maps of central London, UK: Comparisons with the London
Underground. Geoscience Frontiers xxx xxx–xxx
7 Paul J.D., 2015. A question of uniformitarianism: Has the geological past become the key to humanity’s
future? Anthropocene xxx xxx–xxx
6 Paul J.D., 2015. English Jurassic Limestone Country: Stroud, Central Cotswolds. Geology Today 31(1)
28–32
5 Paul J.D., G.G. Roberts and N. White, 2014. The African Landscape through Space and Time. Tectonics
33(6) 898–935
4 Paul, J.D., 2014. The Relationship between Spring Discharge, Drainage, and Periglacial Geomorphology of the Frome Valley, Central Cotswolds, UK. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 125 182–194
3 Paul J.D. and M.J. Blunt, 2012. Wastewater filtration and re-use: An alternative water source for London. Science of the Total Environment 437 173–184
2 Roberts G.G., J.D. Paul, N. White and J. Winterbourne, 2012. Temporal and spatial evolution of dynamic support from river profiles: A framework for Madagascar. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
13(4) Q04004
1 Paul J.D., 2009. Geology and the London Underground. Geology Today 25(1) 12–17
Other
6a Paul, J.D., 2014. Dynamic Topography and Drainage of Africa and Madagascar. Ph.D. dissertation,
University of Cambridge
5a Paul J.D., 2014. Should fracking be allowed in Gloucestershire? Gloucester Citizen 11
4a Paul, J., 2014. Adapt or Die! Geoscientist 24(3) 9
3a Paul, J., 2013. Troubled Waters. Geoscientist 23(4) 10–15
2a Agar S.M., S. Geiger, S. Matthäi, R. Alway, S. Tomas, A. Immenhauser, R. Shekhar, J. Paul, G. Benson,
Z. Karcz and L. Kabiri, 2010. The impact of hierarchical fracture networks on flow partitioning in
carbonate reservoirs: Examples based on a Jurassic carbonate ramp analog from the High Atlas (SPE
135135). In: SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition 5 4096–4112
1a Paul, J.D., 2010. Towards a new sustainable source of freshwater for London: Wastewater flow through
the Chalk. Master’s Dissertation, Imperial College London
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Presentations delivered
01/2014
Paul J.D. A History of London’s Water Resources. Invited speaker, Leicester Philosophical
Society.
04/2013
Paul J.D., G. Roberts and N. White. Evolution of Neogene Dynamic Topography in Africa
(poster). European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
12/2012
Paul J.D., G.G. Roberts and N. J. White. Evolution of Neogene Dynamic Topography in Madagascar (poster). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
12/2012
Paul J.D. and M.J. Blunt. Wastewater Filtration and Re-use: An Alternative Water Source for
London (poster). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
10/2012
Paul J.D. Landscape Evolution in Madagascar: Insights from Geological Fieldwork. Invited
speaker, Anglo-Malagasy Society AGM, London, UK.
04/2012
Paul J.D., G.G. Roberts and N. White. Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Dynamic Support
From River Profiles: A Framework for Madagascar and Africa (oral). European Geosciences
Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria.
04/2012
Azizmohammadi S. and J.D. Paul. Scale Dependence of Equivalent Permeability Tensor in
Naturally Fractured Reservoirs (poster). European Geosciences Union General Assembly,
Vienna, Austria.
01/2012
Paul J.D., N. White and G.G. Roberts. Landscape Evolution of Madagascar and Africa through
the Cenozoic Era (oral). Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting, Edinburgh, UK.
09/2011
Paul J.D., J. Wilson, G.G. Roberts and N. White. Dynamic Support of Madagascar and Africa
through the Cenozoic Era (oral). Dynamic Topography: A Key Surface Record of Deep Earth
Processes, Geological Society, London, UK.
09/2011
Trojer M. and J.D. Paul. CH4 production by CO2 exchange (poster). IAMG Conference:
Mathematical Geosciences at the Crossroads of Theory and Practice, Salzburg, Austria.
12/2010
Paul J.D., G.G. Roberts and N. White. Uplift histories from river profiles: examples from Africa
(poster). American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
06/2009
Paul J.D. A comparison of Structural Geology: London Basin and the Manhattan Prong. Invited
speaker, Horsham Geological Field Club.
03/2009
Paul J.D. Tunnelling under London: Engineering Geology considerations for Crossrail (poster).
SET for Britain Exhibition, Houses of Parliament, London, UK.
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Academic activities
Teaching
1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
01/2014–05/2014
Basin Dynamics (lecturer & supervisor)
3rd- & 4th-year undergraduate
09/2013–01/2014
Supervisor, MSci project
4th-year undergraduate
01/2012–03/2012
Basin Dynamics (demonstrator)
3rd- & 4th-year undergraduate
12/2011
Greece field trip (active tectonics)
3rd-year undergraduate
10/2010–06/2011
Earth Science introductory course
1st-year undergraduate
04/2011–05/2011,
04/2012–05/2012
03/2011
Sedimentary Basins lecture course
2nd-year undergraduate
Arran field trip (general Geology)
1st-year undergraduate
11/2010
Applied Geophysics lecture course
3rd-year undergraduate
Supervisions
Sedimentary Basins; Geophysics; Structural
and Engineering Geology; Seismology
Four 2nd-year students (12 hours total)
2. Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London
Applied Geophysics lecture course
3rd-year undergraduate
07/2011
Upscaling relative permeability in naturally
fractured reservoirs
Department of Petroleum Engineering,
Montanuniversität
Leoben, Austria
07/2010–08/2010
RRS James Cook, North Atlantic seismic
acquisition Cruises JC049 and JC050 (P.I.:
Nicky White)
University of Cambridge
05/2010
Diamond Light Source, Oxon, UK (P.I.: Andrew Berry)
Imperial College London
07/2009–08/2009
Characterisation of fractured
pore-scale modelling
reservoirs;
Department of Petroleum Engineering,
Montanuniversität
Leoben, Austria
07/2008–08/2008
Origin of brittle extensional fractures and
implications on oil recovery for a fractured
limestone reservoir in Morocco.
Applied Modelling & Computation Group, Imperial College
London
01/2010–04/2010
Research Assistant
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Outreach
02/2011–present
6 external school visits; 2 internal visits
University of Cambridge
10/2007–06/2011
Weekly PowerPoint presentation at prospective student interview days
Imperial College London
01/2008–02/2011
9 external school visits
Imperial College London
Field Experience
06/2012
Madagascar
25 days
Ph.D. research
University of Cambridge
12/2011
Gulf of Corinth, Greece
8 days
Teaching
University of Cambridge
09/2011
Swiss, Italian and French Alps
10 days
Corporate training
BP
03/2011
Isle of Arran, Scotland
8 days
Teaching
University of Cambridge
12/2010
Arizona, Utah, California, USA
7 days
Ph.D. research
University of Cambridge
11/2009
Kent & West Sussex, UK
4 days
M.Sci research
Imperial College London
09/2008
Apennines & Bay of Naples,
Italy
14 days
Undergraduate
field work
Imperial/UCL
05/2007
Southern Spain
14 days
U.G. field work
Imperial College London
11/2006
Dorset, UK
8 days
U.G. field work
Imperial College London
Key Skills
- Competent user of LATEX and all Microsoft Office programs
- Experience of Unix environment, bash and fortran scripting, and GMT figure-making software
- User of Adobe applications (Photoshop and Illustrator)
- User of spatial mapping applications including the Esri arcGIS suite
- Broad experience of a suite of specialised Geophysical programs including Kingdom Suite, Landmark
OpenWorks, and Claritas GLOBE
- French speaking, and intermediate German
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team, or to lead a team
References
Any references are available upon request.
Last updated: August 16, 2015