Meet the Team
Meet the Rockwatch Management Team – a group of diverse, professionally qualified geologists and other experienced amateurs.

Rockwatch Chair
When I was a little girl my grandfather, who was a hydrologist and an amateur geologist, used to tell me stories about dinosaurs and share his fossil finds with me. Read More

Rockwatch Co-ordinator
My background is economics and journalism so Rockwatch can only be described as a late found passion. I have four children, all of who, when young, liked scrabbling around on Read More

Rockwatch Magazine Editor
I studied geology at St Andrews University, which was a wonderful opportunity to get to know Scotland’s scenery and to contemplate its complex structure. At that time plate tectonics had Read More

Rockwatch Magazine Editor
I started out collecting fossils in North Wales as a boy. With time my collection grew and so did my interest, and I was lucky enough to study geology at Read More

Rockwatch Management Committee
I graduated with a degree in geology and geography, trained to be a teacher and spent thirty seven years as a teacher of geography and geology in the Weymouth area. Read More

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I have worked in the Earth Sciences Department (formerly the Geology Department) at University College London since 1976. Originally I worked as Curator of the many thousands of specimens of Read More

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I could say I have geology in my blood; my father was a geologist and I have followed in his footsteps. I studied geology in London, followed by Aberystwyth, which Read More

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I became interested in geology whilst at school and then, when living in Worcestershire, attended geology evening classes on the Malvern Hills. I went on to study with the Open Read More

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I have been a rock and fossil enthusiast since primary school and followed this calling via batchelor and doctorate degrees in Geology from London University. Employment as a geologist in Read More

Rockwatch Magazine Publisher
I spent years writing about nature conservation and wildlife and reporting on environmental projects in towns and cities. While researching an article about The Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, I found the Read More

Rockwatch Management Committee
I started out as a teenage fossil collector in West Sussex and, although I never took up geology as a career, I have always been passionate about our landscape, rocks Read More