Prof Michael Stephenson
Director of Science and Technology
Location: Keyworth
Tel: 0115 936 3577
E-mail Prof Michael Stephenson
Biography
- 2013 : Director of Science and Technology
- 2011 : Appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester
- 2010 : Appointed Special Professor at the University of Nottingham
- 2008 –2013 : Head of Energy Science
- 2005 –2008 : Principal Research Scientist: palynology and stratigraphy
- 1999 –2005 : Palynologist and stratigrapher
- 1996 –1998 : PhD University of Sheffield
- 1995 –1996 : MSc University of Sheffield
- 1986 –1995 : School teacher in Mahalapye, Botswana
- 1979 –1982 : BSc Imperial College
Current projects and collaboration
- PhD supervision: Issam Al Barram (PhD) Sheffield University, 2007. Carys Bennett (PhD) Leicester University, 2010. Irfan Jan (PhD) Leicester University, 2011. Sven Koenitzer (PhD) Leicester University, current. Rachel Jamieson (PhD) Edinburgh University, current. Gaia Crippa (PhD) University of Milano, current. William Knight (PhD) University of Leicester, current.
Boards and committees
- Editor and Board Member of GeoArabia Petroleum Geosciences, published by Gulf Petrolink
- Editor of Arabian Journal of Geosciences, published by Springer
- Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Journal Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
- 2002 –2008 : Secretary General CIMP, 2002–2008
Research interests
- Carbon capture and storage
- Energy science and policy
- Palynology, isotopes, stratigraphy and Earth events
Published outputs
Key papers
Stephenson, M. H. and Powell, J. H. 2013. Palynology and alluvial architecture in the Permian Umm Irna Formation, Dead Sea, Jordan. GeoArabia, 2013, v. 18, no. 3, p. 17-60
Zeng, R., Vincent, C., Tian, X., Stephenson, M. H. Xu, S. W. W. 2013. New potential carbon emission reduction enterprises in China: deep geological storage of Co2 emitted through industrial usage of coal in China. Greenhouse Gases Science and technology DOI 10.1002/ghg
Kender, S., Stephenson, Michael H., Riding James B., Leng Melanie J., Knox Robert W. O’B., Vane Christopher H, Peck Victoria L., Kendrick Christopher P, Ellis Michael A., Jamieson Rachel. 2012. Enhanced precipitation and vegetation changes in the North-East Atlantic at the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 353-354, 108-120.
Koenitzer, Sven F. Melanie J. Leng, Sarah J. Davies and Michael H. Stephenson. 2012. An Assessment of Geochemical Preparation Methods prior to Organic Carbon Concentration and Carbon Isotope Ratio Analyses on Carboniferous Mudstones. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, volume 13, number 1, pp 1-12.
Stephenson, M H , Irfan U. Jan and Sa’ad Zeki A. Kader Al-Mashaikie. 2012. Palynology and correlation of Carboniferous - Permian glacigene rocks in Oman, Yemen and Pakistan. Gondwana Research. Published online.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2012.06.005
Stephenson, M H. 2012. Are we closing off technology options for a low carbon future? New Statesman online http://www.newstatesman.com/energy/perspectives-energy/2012/11/are-we-closing-technology-options-low-carbon-future
Stephenson, M. H. 2012. Frack responsibly and risks and quakes are small. New Scientist, Jan 28 Issue.
Stephenson, M. H. 2012. Shale gas risks. Journal of the Foundation for Science and Technology, Volume 20, Number 8, 25-26.
Stephenson, M. H. 2012. Shale gas – a home grown source of energy and fuel, Science in Parliament, 68, 44-45.
Stephenson, M. H., L. Angiolini, F. Darbyshire, M.J. Leng. 2012. Age of the Khuff Formation in Saudi Arabia and Oman from brachiopod strontium. GeoArabia, v. 17, no. 2, p. 61-76.
Angiolini,L. M.H. Stephenson, M.J. Leng, F. Jadoul, D. Millward, A. Aldridge, J. Andrews, S. Chenery, G. Williams. 2011. Heterogeneity, cyclity and diagenesis in a Mississippian brachiopod shell of palaeoequatorial Britain. Terra Nova, 24, 16–26.
Daamen, D., Bart W. B.,ter Mors E., Reiner, D., Schumann, D., Anghel, S., Boulouta, I., Cismaru, D., Constantin, C., de Jager, C., Dudu, A., Firth, R., Gemeni, V., Hendriks, C., Koukouzas, N., Markos, A., Næss, R., Nihfidov, O., Pietzner, K., Samoila I., Sava, C., Stephenson, M., Tomescu, C., Torvatn, H., Tvedt, S., Vallentin, D. West, J M. and Ziogou F. 2011. Scrutinizing the impact of CCS communication on opinion quality: Focus group discussions versus Information-Choice Questionnaires: Results from experimental research in six countries. Energy Procedia, 4, pp 6182-6187. DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.629
Jan, I, & Stephenson, M. H. 2011. Palynology and correlation of the Upper Pennsylvanian Tobra Formation, Zaluch Nala, Salt Range, Pakistan. Palynology. 35, 212-225.
Stephenson, M. H., and Al-Mashaikie, S. Z. A. K. 2011. Stratigraphic note: Update on the age of the Akbarah and Kuhlan formations, northwest Yemen. GeoArabia, 16, 17-24.
Stephenson, M.H. 2011. Two new non-haptotypic palynomorph taxa from the Middle Permian Upper Gharif Member, Oman. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 117, 211-219.
Waters, C. N, Somerville, I. D., Stephenson, M. H. 2011. Chapter 26, International Correlation. In: A revised correlation of the Carboniferous rocks of the British Isles. The Geological Society, Special Report 26, p. 11-22.
Waters, C. N, Somerville, I. D., Stephenson, M. H., Cleal, C. J., Long, S. 2011. Chapter 3, Biostratigraphy. In: A revised correlation of the Carboniferous rocks of the British Isles. The Geological Society, Special Report 26, p. 11-22.
Afzal, J., Williams, M., Leng, M.J., Aldridge, R.J. & Stephenson, M.H. 2010. Evolution of Paleocene to Early Eocene larger benthic foraminifer assemblages of the Indus Basin, Pakistan. Lethaia, 44, 299-320. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00247.x
Selden, Paul A. Rony Huys, Michael H. Stephenson, Alan P. Heward & Paul N. Taylor. 2010. Crustaceans from a bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite of Oman extend the fossil record of copepods. Nature Communications, 1, Article no. 50.
Stephenson, M. H., and Al-Mashaikie, S. Z. A. K. 2010. New age for the lower part of the Kuhlan Formation, northwest Yemen. GeoArabia, 15: 195-204.
Stephenson, M.H. & Rochelle, C. 2010. Have your coal and burn it. Education in Chemistry, Royal Society of Chemistry, 47, 23-25.
Stephenson, M.H. L. Angiolini, P. Cozar, F. Jadoul, M.J. leng, D. Millward, S. Chenery. 2010. Northern England Serpukhovian (early Namurian) farfield responses to southern hemisphere glaciation. Journal of the Geological Society, 167; 1171-1184.
