Dr Jonathan Lee

Dr Jonathan Lee Quaternary Geologist

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3517

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Biography

  •  2012 :  Book Review Editor: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
  •  2008 –2010 :  Landscape Evolution Team Leader, Climate Change
  •  2007 :  BGS District Geologist for Northern and Southern East Anglia
  •  2007 –2010 :  Executive Committee Member, Quaternary Research Association
  •  2005 :  Honorary Research Associate, Royal Holloway University of London
  •  2004 :  Awarded the Lewis Penny Medal by the Quaternary Research Association
  •  2003 :  Quaternary Geologist, British Geological Survey
  •  2000 –2003 :  PhD, Royal Holloway University of London, Quaternary stratigraphy
  •  1998 –1999 :  MSc, Royal Holloway University of London, Quaternary Science
  •  1997 –1998 :  Petroleum Information, Geologist
  •  1994 –1997 :  BSc Hons, Kingston University, Geology and Phys Geography

Current projects and collaboration

  •  Early and Middle Pleistocene palaeoclimates: early glacial signals within the British Quaternary; cold and warm climate signals; early humans. Collaboration with AHOB, Dr Ian Candy (Royal Holloway) and Nigel Larkin (Norfolk Museums)
  •  Joint Editor of a Special Issue (with Emrys Phillips) of Proceedings of the Geologists' Association on Glacitectonics - due for publication in 2013
  •  Lead Editor of the East Anglia Regional Guide
  •  Superficial sequences, glacial geomorphology and geology in East Anglia, Anglesey and adjacent marine areas
  •  United Arab Emirates mapping project: mapping of Miocene to Holocene coastal, fluvial and aeolian deposits
  •  2008 :  Co-supervision of David Vaughan Hirsch at Southampton with Dr Emrys Phillips (BGS) and Professor Jane Hart (Southampton). PhD is entitled “Glaciotectonic Rafts: methods of detachment, transport and emplacement” and examines field sites in East Anglia and Ireland

Skills

  •  Clastic sedimentology
  •  Heavy mineralogy of Quaternary sediments
  •  Mapping of lowland and highland superficial sequences
  •  Mapping of sedimentary bedrock terrains
  •  Quaternary geology and geomorphology

Professional association

  •  Member of the Geological Society of Norfolk
  •  Member of the Quaternary Research Association

Research interests

  •  Glacial Histories: central and eastern England, North Sea, Irish Sea, Nordic Seas
  •  Glacial sedimentology and geomorphology
  •  Quaternary fluvial systems and sea-level change
  •  Sediment provenancing
  •  Subglacial deformable beds and glaciotectonites

Published outputs

Key papers

Phillips, E., Lee, J.R., Evans, H.M. (eds.). 2011. Glacitectonics – Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, Pontypool. 263pp.

Böse, M., Lüthgens, C., Lee, J.R., Rose, J. 2012. Quaternary glaciations of northern Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 44, 1-25.

Lee, J.R., Busschers, F.S., Sejrup, H.P. 2012. Pre-Weichselian Quaternary glaciations of the British Isles, The Netherlands, Norway and adjacent marine areas south of 68°N: implications for long-term ice sheet development in northern Europe. Quaternary Science Reviews, 44, 213-228. 

Larkin, N.R., Lee, J.R., Connell, E.R. 2011. Possible ice-rafted erratics in late Early to early Middle Pleistocene shallow marine and coastal deposits in northeast Norfolk, UK. Proceedings of the Geologist’s Association, 122, 445-454.

Candy, I., Lee, J.R., Harrison, A.M. (eds.). 2008. Northern East Anglia – Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, London. 264p.

Lee, J.R., Phillips, E. 2008. Progressive soft sediment deformation within a subglacial shear zone — a hybrid mosaic-pervasive deformation model for Middle Pleistocene glaciotectonised sediments from Eastern England. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1350-1362.

Phillips, E., Lee, J.R., Burke, H.K. 2008. Progressive proglacial to subglacial deformation and syntectonic deformation at the margins of the Mid-Pleistocene British Ice Sheet: evidence from north Norfolk, UK. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1848-1871.

Lee, J.R., Rose, J., Candy, I., Barendregt, R. 2006. Sea-level changes, river activity, soil development and glaciation around the western margins of the southern North Sea Basin during the Early and early Middle Pleistocene: evidence from Pakefield, Suffolk, UK. Journal of Quaternary Science, 21, 155-179.