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Contributors
Stephen J. Culver Educated at the University of Wales (Swansea), Steve Culver
taught for 2 years at the University of Sierra Leone before moving to the USA in
1978 on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Except for a
5-year sojourn at the Natural History Museum, London, in the 1990s, Culver has
taught and conducted coastal research for over 30 years at Old Dominion University
and East Carolina University. He is coeditor of a textbook on biotic response to
global change over the past 135 million years and coauthor of a popular text on
coastal change in North Carolina, USA. His recent research has utilized microfossils (foraminifera) as tools to reconstruct and understand past as well as current
coastal environmental change in North Carolina and peninsular Malaysia.
Department of Geological Sciences, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences,
Graham, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Kathleen M. Farrell Educated in sedimentary geology at the University of
Rochester, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Louisiana State University,
Kathleen Farrell taught sedimentary geology at Old Dominion University in Virginia
for 2 years. After this, she became Senior Coastal Geologist at the Georgia Geologic
Survey, moving to the North Carolina Geological Survey in 1991. Farrell is Senior
Geologist for Coastal Plain, Stratigraphy, and Geomorphology disciplines in
NC. Throughout her career, Farrell has conducted research to understand how modern and ancient geologic environments such as barrier islands and river systems
evolve over time and form geologic deposits that may be economically valuable.
North Carolina Geological Survey, Raleigh, NC, USA
Pamela Hallock Educated in ecology and oceanography at the Universities of
Montana and Hawaii, Pam Hallock taught earth sciences for 5 years at the University
of Texas of the Permian Basin before joining the University of South Florida Marine
Science Faculty in 1983. She conducts research on environmental conditions that
support modern coral reefs, on how environmental changes can terminate accretion
Contributors
Stephen J. Culver Educated at the University of Wales (Swansea), Steve Culver
taught for 2 years at the University of Sierra Leone before moving to the USA in
1978 on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution. Except for a
5-year sojourn at the Natural History Museum, London, in the 1990s, Culver has
taught and conducted coastal research for over 30 years at Old Dominion University
and East Carolina University. He is coeditor of a textbook on biotic response to
global change over the past 135 million years and coauthor of a popular text on
coastal change in North Carolina, USA. His recent research has utilized microfossils (foraminifera) as tools to reconstruct and understand past as well as current
coastal environmental change in North Carolina and peninsular Malaysia.
Department of Geological Sciences, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences,
Graham, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Kathleen M. Farrell Educated in sedimentary geology at the University of
Rochester, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, and Louisiana State University,
Kathleen Farrell taught sedimentary geology at Old Dominion University in Virginia
for 2 years. After this, she became Senior Coastal Geologist at the Georgia Geologic
Survey, moving to the North Carolina Geological Survey in 1991. Farrell is Senior
Geologist for Coastal Plain, Stratigraphy, and Geomorphology disciplines in
NC. Throughout her career, Farrell has conducted research to understand how modern and ancient geologic environments such as barrier islands and river systems
evolve over time and form geologic deposits that may be economically valuable.
North Carolina Geological Survey, Raleigh, NC, USA
Pamela Hallock Educated in ecology and oceanography at the Universities of
Montana and Hawaii, Pam Hallock taught earth sciences for 5 years at the University
of Texas of the Permian Basin before joining the University of South Florida Marine
Science Faculty in 1983. She conducts research on environmental conditions that
support modern coral reefs, on how environmental changes can terminate accretion