Dr Stephen Grimes
Profiles

Dr Stephen Grimes

Associate Head of School - Education and Student Experience

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

Dr Stephen Grimes can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
  • Palaeoclimatology
  • Biomineralisation
  • Stable isotope geochemistry
Biography

Biography

SoGEES Associate Head of School - Education & Student Experience

Qualifications

 
Oct. 1991 – June 1994: Obtained a 2:1 BSc Honours degree in Geochemistry at the University of St. Andrews on the 7/7/1994. During my degree I spent 2 months conducting my 3rd year undergraduate fieldwork project on the South Rurie Carbonatite Complex in western Kenya.

Sept. 1994 – Jan. 1998: Obtained a PhD from Cardiff University on the 14/7/1998. The thesis title was "Studies of geothermal systems, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand". The work was supervised by Prof. Rickard and showed for the first time how U-series dating of calcite could be used to constrain the age of geothermal alteration (Grimes et al. 1998). Additional work using strontium isotopes as a tool to understand alteration styles within geothermal fields (Grimes et al. 2000) and a study of unique sulphur mounds at the Wiotapu geothermal system explained their process of formation (Grimes et al. 1999).

Jan. 1998 – Jan. 2000: NERC Post Doctorate Research Associate at Cardiff University. The title of the research was "Unlocking the early evolution of land plants and their biogeochemical impact through pyritisation of their remains", grant number GR3/11196. The research was concerned with pyrite formation pathways and the understanding of the process involved in the pyritisation of organic matter. This work involved collaboration between Prof. David Rickard (Cardiff University), Prof. Dianne Edwards (Cardiff University), Prof. John Parkes (Bristol University) and Prof. Derek Briggs (Bristol University). In its initial stage I designed and constructed a novel anoxic chemostatic reaction system for the investigation of pyrite formation pathways and pyritisation of organic matter under strictly controlled environmental and chemical conditions. Using this and other experimental systems I explain the environment and mechanism involved in the pyritisation of plant axes in the London Clay (Grimes et al. 2001a; Grimes et al. 2002a; Grimes et al. 2007). Conference presentations were made at the 9th (1999, Houston) and 10th (2000, Oxford) Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conferences.

April 2000 – July 2003: NERC Post Doctorate Research Associate at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). The title of the research was "Greenhouse-icehouse transitions: testing the use of oxygen isotopes in associated mammal tooth phosphate and freshwater carbonates as an Eocene-Oligocene climate proxy", grant number GRE/12864. The work required me to design a new method for determining the d18OPO4 ratio in rodent tooth enamel so as to constrain the d18O of palaeo-freshwater (Lindars et al. 2001). I have also shown how the mean d18O of palaeo-freshwater can be combined with d18O values from other freshwater proxies (gastropod shells, fish otoliths, fish scales & charophyte gyrogonites) to calculate multiple terrestrial palaeotemperatures which, due to different mineralization times throughout the year, have differing climatic significance (Grimes et al. 2003). This work has culminated in the publication of the first multiple terrestrial palaeotemperature curve (Mean Growing Season Temperature, and Mean Warmest Growing Season Temperature) across the Eocene – Oligocene transition (Grimes et al. 2005). In addition, a paper outlining the application of this multi-palaeoproxy approach to the study of terrestrial climate change in the Quaternary has been published (Grimes et al. 2004b) and a related paper using carbon isotope results to infer the palaeodiet of rodents has also been published (Grimes et al. 2004a). My research techniques have also been used by the BBC program “Meet the Ancestors; Napoleon’s lost Army: The soldiers who fell” (screened on 3/2/2003) as a forensic tool to determine the birthplace of Napoleonic soldiers. x

Roles on external bodies


Research organisations

1. Full member of the NERC Peer Review College
2. Member of the European Science Foundation Pool of Peer Reviewers

Committee member of the following organisations

1. The Geochemistry Group, a joint special interest group of the Mineralogical Society and the Geological Society. 2010 - 2012
2. The Mineralogical Society Awards Committee. 2011 -2012

Peer reviewed research grants for the following international funding councils

1. Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC)
2. National Science Foundation (NSF)
3. Science Foundation Ireland
4. European Science Foundation
5. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Reviewed manuscripts in the following international peer review journals

1. Nature
2. Nature Geoscience
3. Geology
4. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
5. Chemical Geology
6. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
7. Journal of the Geological Society of London
8. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
9. Quaternary International

Teaching

Teaching

Teaching interests

1. Earth Sciences Programme Manager from 2012 - 2016

2. Leader of the Stage 5 (Masters level) module Advanced Analytical Skills (GEOL5003).

3. Leader of the Stage 1 module Geosystems (GEOL1003).

On the 1st November 2004 I was awarded a post-graduate certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (LTHE).

On the 1st September 2008 I became an LTHE staff mentor to Dr Meriel Fitzpatrick, who went on to pass her course in June 2010. 

 

Staff serving as external examiners

 

External PhD examinations

6th December 2013. External examiner at the University of Leicester during the PhD viva of Dr Sven Fred Könitzer.

16th December 2008. External examiner at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid during the PhD viva of Dr Laura Domingo Martínez.

Internal PhD examinations

22nd February 2007.Internal examiner at the University of Plymouth during the PhD viva of Dr Elizabeth Nunn.

Research

Research

Research interests

My current research interests include

1)   Stable isotope mass spectrometry

2)   Reconstructing terrestrial and marine palaeoenvironments during the Cenozoic

3)   Understanding past hyperthermal events and their related ocean acidification events

Research degrees awarded to supervised students

Current PhD Students   

Miss Camille Dusséaux. PhD studentship entitled Stable Isotope paleoaltimetry reconstruction of the Variscan belt of Western Europe'. Funded by the University of Plymouth. Supervision team: Dr A. Gebelin and Dr S.T. Grimes

Past PhD Students     

2016. Dr Mohammed Chaanda. PhD studentship entitled "Cenozoic terrestrial palaeoenvironmental change: An investigation of the Bovey and Petrockstowe basins, South West United Kingdom" Start date January 2011. Funded by the Nigerian Government. Supervision team: Dr S.T. Grimes, Dr G.D. Price and Dr M. Anderson. 

2015. Dr Amadu Tukur. Visiting PhD student from the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Nigeria (Jan 2012- July 2012)

2014. Dr Hayley Manners. PhD studentship entitled "A high resolution compound specific carbon isotope study of the PETM in Northern Spain" Start date October 2009. Funded by the University of Plymouth. Supervision team: Dr S.T. Grimes, Dr P. Sutton, Prof. R.J. Twitchett & Prof. M. Hart.

2011. Dr Muhammad Hanif. PhD studentship entitled "Micropalaeontology and stratigraphy of the Palaeocene / Eocene thermal maximum of Pakistan" Started October 2007. Funded by NCEG University of Peshawar Pakistan. Supervision team: Prof. M. Hart, Dr C. Smart & Dr S.T. Grimes. 

2011. Dr Melanie Bugler. PhD studentship entitled "An investigation into use of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus as a recorder of past climatic change". Started October 2006, completed March 2011. Funded by Graduate School, University of Plymouth. Supervision team: Dr G.D. Price, Dr S.T. Grimes & Dr C. Smart.

2009. Dr Timothy Kearsey. PhD studentship entitled ‘ Multi-proxy palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event' . Started 1st October 2005, completed 26th March 2009. Funded by the Faculty of Science, University of Plymouth. Supervision team: Dr R.J. Twitchett, Dr S.T. Grimes, Dr G.D. Price & Prof. M.J. Benton (University of Bristol).

2008. Dr Laura Domingo Martínez. Visiting PhD student from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (August 2006 - October 2006 and September 2007 - November 2007). Supervisor, Prof. Nieves López-Martínez.   

MGeol, MSc and MRes Student

Ms Lucy Full. MGeol 2013/14.A multi-proxy geochemical investigation into the palaeosols at Esplugafreda, northern Spain; Palaeoclimatic changes through the PETM.

Ms Charis Vale. MGeol 2013/14. A facies and stable isotope investigation of the London Clay Formation, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight.

Ms Lucy Joy. MGeol 2012/13. A facies and stable isotope investigation of the London Clay Formation, Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight.

Ms Cara Parker. MSc 20010/11. Reconstruction of atmospheric carbon dioxide δ13C ratios across the Eocene / Oligocene transition.

Ms Leah-Marie Foster. MGeol 20010/11. A micro-palaeontological and geochemical investigation of the transition through the Reading - Harwich - London Clay formations, UK.

Ms Emma Hodgson. MGeol 2009/2010. Geochemical and palynological evidence for the Paleocene / Eocene Thermal Maximum from the Hampshire Basin, UK. Dr S.T. Grimes & Prof. M. Hart.

Ms Tracey Aze. MRes 2006/2007. MRes thesis entitled "A study of ocean acidification and its effect upon past and future foraminiferal communities". Supervision team: Dr S.T. Grimes, Prof. M. Hart & Dr. C. Smart.

Mr Gavin McIntosh. MRes 2005/2006. MRes thesis entitled "Unravelling seasonal Pliocene climates in the Mediterranean ~3.0Ma through the use of sclerochronology of Crassostrea longirostris from the Vera Basin S.E. Spain". Supervision team: Dr S.T. Grimes & Dr M. Stokes.

Mr Matthew Sharples. MSc 2004/2005. MSc thesis entitled "Testing the isotope signal from fossil Crassostrea longirostris oysters as a palaeoclimate reconstruction tool". Supervision team: Dr S.T. Grimes & Dr M. Stokes.

Nuffield Foundation Students

Miss Molly Harrison. 2014 Nuffield Foundation Research Placement for Schools & Colleges scheme. Research entitled 'Understanding past climate change events'

Mr Philip Martin. 2011. Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Science bursary scheme. Research entitled 'A micropalaeontological and geochemical investigation of the late Paleocene / early Eocene sediments from Ermua (Northern Spain)'

Mr Robin Hayward. 2011. Nuffield Foundation Science Bursaries for Schools & Colleges scheme. Research entitled 'A micropalaeontological investigation of a past greenhouse climate event'

Part-Time Voluntary Research Assistants

Ms Melanie Bizet. Summer 2014

Ms Jo Torres. Summer 2013

Mr Phil Martin. Summer 2013.

Ms Emma Hodgson. Summer 2011

Grants & contracts

 

Research Grants 

2012
1. Awarded £396,429. NERC standard grant, with a 3 year PDRA. Project entitled 'Carbonate clumped-isotopic constraints on marine temperatures during the Cretaceous'. Start date 1st December 2012. PI: Greg Price, Co-I Stephen Grimes.

2. Awarded £68,628. Funded jointly by Plymouth University and the British Geological Survey University Funding Initiative (BUFI). PhD studentship entitled 'Palaeohydrology of a rapid climate change event at the Palaeocene-Eocene boundary'. Supervision team: S.T. Grimes, M. Ellis (BGS, Keyworth) R. Duller (Liverpool), S. Kender, (BGS, Keyworth), M. Stokes, M. Watkinson.


2011
1. Awarded £1,440. Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursary scheme. Funding to employ Mr Philip Martin, a stage 2 Geology undergraduate student, to undertake a project entitled 'A micropaleontological and stable isotope investigation of Late Paleocene to Early Eocene sediments from Ermua, Northern Spain' 

2. Awarded £4,740. Marine Institute small collaborative research grant scheme, in conjunction with Prof. Roland Gehrels. Funding to undertake a project entitled 'Constraining the magnitude and timing of the rapid sea-level jumps associated with the 8.2ka climate event'

2010
1. Awarded £40,304. NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility. Funding for compound specific carbon and hydrogen isotope analyses as part of a PhD studentship entitled "A high resolution compound specific carbon isotope study of the PETM in Northern Spain".

2009
1. Awarded £14,030. NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Steering Committe. Funding for carbon isotope analyses associated with a PhD studentship entitled "A high resolution compound specific carbon isotope study of the PETM in Northern Spain".

2. Awarded ~£42,000. Graduate School, University of Plymouth. PhD studentship entitled "A high resolution compound specific carbon isotope study of the PETM in Northern Spain". Supervision team: S.T. Grimes, P. Sutton, R.J. Twitchett & M. Hart.

3. Recognised researcher on a €170,000 Spanish (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación) funded grant. Grant entitled ‘Estudio de episodios criticos del registro geologico mediante multi-indicadores de procesos geobiologicos’. Lead investigator, Prof. Nieves Lopez Martinez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

2008
1. Awarded £12,750. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facility. Funding for carbonate and water stable isotope analyses associated with a PhD studentship entitled "Is seasonal climate variability a key factor in biotic extinctions? ". 

2. Awarded £19,840. NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility. Funding for carbon and hydrogen isotope analyses on a project entiled "Quantifying the nature of the Paleocene/Eocene thermal maximum in southern Europe".  

2007
1. Awarded £5,863. University of Plymouth Research and Innovation Fellowship Award Scheme. Funding to undertake a project entitled 'Compound specific carbon isotope analysis of terrestrial organic matter: The next generation tool for the study of climate change'.

2006
1. Awarded ~£42,000. Graduate School, University of Plymouth. PhD studentship entitled "Is seasonal climate variability a key factor in biotic extinctions? ". Supervision team: S.T. Grimes, G.D. Price & C. Smart.

2. Awarded £2,200. NERC Isotope Geoscience Facility. Carbon isotope analyses associated with "Quantifying the extent to which the initial Eocene thermal maximum affected the continental climate of Europe".

2005
1. Awarded £7,150. British Academy. 18 month small grant to undertake research entitled 'Nomadic or sedentary? Using oxygen and carbon isotopes in tooth enamel to ascertain the life style of a past population in Central Asia'.

2. Awarded ~£42,000 Faculty of Science, University of Plymouth. PhD studentship entitled ‘Global climate change during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event’. Supervision team: R.J. Twitchett, S.T. Grimes, G.D. Price & M.J. Benton (University of Bristol).

2004
1. Awarded £47,312. NERC. 2 year New Investigators Grant. Project title "Quantifying the extent to which the initial Eocene thermal maximum affected the continental climate of Europe"


Travel Grants
 

1999
1. Awarded £1,120. Royal Society. For attendance at The 9th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. August 22nd – 27th, 1999. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.


Teaching Grants

2008 
1. Awarded £2,955. Experiential Learning in Environmental and Natural Sciences CETL at the University of Plymouth. Purpose is to develop material for the practical teaching of palaeoclimatology.

 

Publications

Publications

Key publications

Key publications are highlighted

Journals
Articles
Chaanda MS, Grimes ST, Jerrett RM, Anderson M, Leng MJ, Fitzpatrick ME & Price GD (2023) 'Terrestrial carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Eocene–Oligocene transition, Petrockstowe and Bovey basins, Devon, UK' Proceedings of the Geologists' Association , DOI Open access
Dusséaux C, Gébelin A, Boulvais P, Gardien V, Grimes S & Mulch A (2019) 'Meteoric fluid‐rock interaction in Variscan shear zones' Terra Nova , DOI Open access
Boulton SJ, VanDeVelde JH & Grimes S (2019) 'Palaeoenvironmental and tectonic significance of Miocene lacustrine and palustrine carbonates (Ait Kandoula Formation) in the Ouarzazate Foreland Basin, Morocco' Sedimentary Geology 383, 195-195 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
Duller R, Armitage J, Manners H, Grimes ST & Dunkley Jones T (2019) 'Delayed sedimentary response to abrupt climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, northern Spain' Geology , DOI Open access
Price GD, Janssen NMM, Martinez M, Company M, Vandevelde JH & Grimes S (2018) 'A high-resolution belemnite geochemical analysis of Early Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian) environmental and climatic perturbations' Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems , DOI Open access
Dunkley Jones T, Manners HR, Hoggett M, Kirtland Turner S, Westerhold T, Leng MJ, Pancost RD, Ridgwell A, Alegret L & Duller R (2018) 'Dynamics of sediment flux to a bathyal continental margin section through the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum' Climate of the Past 14, (7) 1035-1049 , DOI Open access
Sheldon ND, Grimes ST, Hooker JJ, Collinson ME, Bugler MJ, Hren MT, Price GD & Sutton PA (2015) 'Coupling of marine and continental oxygen isotope records during the Eocene-Oligocene transition' Geological Society of America Bulletin 128, (3-4) 502-510 Author Site , DOI Open access
Jerrett RM, Price GD, Grimes ST & Dawson AT (2015) 'A paleoclimatic and paleoatmospheric record from peatlands accumulating during the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event, Western Interior Basin, Canada' GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN 127, (11-12) 1564-1582 Author Site , DOI Open access
Tukur A, Samaila NK, Grimes ST, Kariya II & Chaanda MS (2015) 'Two member subdivision of the Bima Sandstone, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria: Based on sedimentological data' JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES 104, 140-158 , DOI
Grimes S (2015) 'PALAEOCLIMATE Carbon feedbacks on repeat?' NATURE GEOSCIENCE 8, (1) 7-8 , DOI
Manners HR (2014) 'A Multi-Proxy Study of the PETM at the Zumaia Section, northern Spain' Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana 31, 147-148 , DOI
Dawson A (2014) 'Initial paleohydrological observations from the Paleocene-Eocene boundary at Esplugafreda and Berganuy in northern Spain' Rendiconti online della Società Geologica Italiana 31, 54-55 , DOI
Manners HR, Grimes ST, Sutton PA, Domingo L, Leng MJ, Twitchett RJ, Hart MB, Dunkley Jones T, Pancost RD & Duller R (2014) 'Reply to comment on "Magnitude and profile of organic carbon isotope records from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from northern Spain" by Manners et al. [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 376 (2013) 220-230]' EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 395, 294-295 , DOI
Manners HR, Grimes ST, Sutton PA, Domingo L, Leng MJ, Twitchett RJ, Hart MB, Dunkley Jones T, Pancost RD & Duller R (2013) 'Magnitude and profile of organic carbon isotope records from the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum: Evidence from northern Spain' Earth and Planetary Science Letters 376, 220-230 , DOI
Hren MT, Sheldon ND, Grimes ST, Collinson ME, Hooker JJ, Bugler M & Lohmann KC (2013) 'Terrestrial cooling in Northern Europe during the Eocene–Oligocene transition' Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 110, (19) 7562-7567 , DOI
Hanif M, Hart MB & Grimes ST (2012) 'Revised late Paleocene-early Eocene planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Indus Basin, Pakistan' Journal of Nepal Geological Society 44, 23-32 , DOI
Hanif M, Hart MB, Grimes ST & Leng MJ (2012) 'Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the P/E boundary interval, Rakhi Nala section, Indus Basin (Pakistan)' ARABIAN JOURNAL OF GEOSCIENCES 7, (1) 323-339 , DOI
Adojoh O, Grimes S, Watkinson M, Fitzpatrick M, Hart M & Osterloff P (2012) '004 Applied palynodebris associations : Inferred systems tracts, palaeoenvironmental reconstructions and implications from the EA-DP-C Gravity Core, EA field, shallow offshore Niger Delta, Nigeria' 日本花粉学会会誌 58, (Special) 3-4 , DOI
Domingo L, Lopez-Martinez N & Grimes ST (2012) 'Trace element analyses indicative of paleodiets in Middle Miocene mammals from the Somosaguas site (Madrid, Spain)' GEOLOGICA ACTA 10, (3) 239-+ , DOI
Domingo L, Koch PL, Grimes ST, Morales J & Lopez-Martinez N (2012) 'Isotopic paleoecology of mammals and the Middle Miocene Cooling event in the Madrid Basin (Spain)' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 339, 98-113 , DOI
De Jonghe A, Hart MB, Grimes ST, Mitlehner AG, Price GD & Smart CW (2011) 'Middle Eocene diatoms from Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight, England: stratigraphy and preservation' PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGISTS ASSOCIATION 122, (3) 472-483 , DOI
Hodgson E, Grimes ST, Price GD, Fitzpatrick MEJ, Hart MB & Leng MJ (2011) 'Paleogene carbon isotope excursions in the Bunkers Hill borehole: Hampshire Basin, UK' Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 122, (3) 460-471 , DOI
Domingo L, Koch P, Grimes S, Morales J & Lopez-Martinez N (2011) 'THE ISOTOPIC ECOLOGY OF MIDDLE MIOCENE HERBIVORES FROM THE MADRID BASIN (SPAIN)' JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 31, 100-100
Hart MB, De Jonghe A, Grimes ST, Metcalfe B, Price GD & Teece C (2009) 'Microfaunal analysis of the wattonensis beds (upper bathonian) of south dorset' Geoscience in South-West England 12, (2) 134-139
Bugler MJ, Grimes ST, Leng MJ, Rundle SD, Price GD, Hooker JJ & Collinson ME (2009) 'Experimental determination of a Viviparus contectus thermometry equation' Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 23, (18) 2939-2951 Author Site , DOI
Kearsey T, Twitchett RJ, Price GD & Grimes ST (2009) 'Isotope excursions and palaeotemperature estimates from the Permian/Triassic boundary in the Southern Alps (Italy)' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 279, (1-2) 29-40 , DOI
Domingo L, Lopez-Martinez N, Leng MJ & Grimes ST (2009) 'The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum record in the organic matter of the Claret and Tendruy continental sections (South-central Pyrenees, Lleida, Spain)' EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS 281, (3-4) 226-237 , DOI
Domingo L, Grimes ST, Soler-Gijon R & Lopez-Martinez N (2009) 'Analysis of the geochemical variability in lepisosteid scales from the Fontllonga-3 site (early Danian, Tremp Formation, South Central Pyrenees, Spain): Implications for palaeoenvironmental studies' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 274, (3-4) 204-214 , DOI
Domingo L, Grimes ST, Domingo MS & Alberdi MT (2009) 'Paleoenvironmental conditions in the Spanish Miocene-Pliocene boundary: isotopic analyses of <i>Hipparion</i> dental enamel' NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN 96, (4) 503-511 , DOI
Price GD, Wilkinson D, Hart MB, Page KN & Grimes ST (2009) 'Isotopic analysis of coexisting Late Jurassic fish otoliths and molluscs: Implications for upper-ocean water temperature estimates' GEOLOGY 37, (3) 215-218 , DOI
Domingo L, Grimes S, Domingo MS & Alberdi MT (2009) 'ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF <i>HIPPARION</i> DENTAL ENAMEL FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA ACROSS THE MIOCENE-PLIOCENE BOUNDARY' JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 29, 88A-89A
Grimes ST, Collinson ME, Hooker JJ & Mattey DP (2008) 'Is small beautiful? A review of the advantages and limitations of using small mammal teeth and the direct laser fluorination analysis technique in the isotope reconstruction of past continental climate change' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 266, (1-2) 39-50 , DOI
Domingo L, Lopez-Martinez N & Grimes ST (2007) 'Application of trace elements (Ba, Sr, Zn) to paleoecological reconstruction of Middle Miocene herbivores at Somosaguas Site (Madrid, Spain)' Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, (3) 69A-69A
Rickard D, Grimes ST, Butler I, Oldroyd A & Davies KL (2007) 'Botanical constraints on pyrite formation' Chemical Geology 236, (3-4) 228-246
Hooker J, Collinson M, Grimes S, Sille N, Mattey D, Gale A, Huggett J & Laurie E (2007) 'Discussion on the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in the UK - Journal, Vol. 163, 2006, pp. 401-415' Journal of the Geological Society 164, 685-688
Domingo L, Lopez-Martinez N, Soler-Gijon R & Grimes ST (2007) 'A multi-proxy geochemical investigation of the early Paleocene (Danian) continental palaeoclimate at the Fontllonga-3 site (South Central Pyrenees, Spain)' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 256, (1-2) 71-85
Grimes ST, Hooker JJ, Collinson ME & Mattey DP (2005) 'Summer temperatures of late Eocene to early Oligocene freshwaters' Geology 33, (3) 189-192
Grimes ST, Collinson ME, Hooker JJ, Mattey DP, Grassineau NV & Lowry D (2004) 'Discrimination of palaeodiet in coexisting Theridomyid and Glirid rodents using carbon isotopes.  , 103-119' Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 208, 103-119
Grimes ST, Collinson ME, Hooker JJ, Mattey DP, Grassineau NV & Lowry D (2004) 'Distinguishing the diets of coexisting fossil theridomyid and glirid rodents using carbon isotopes' Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 208, (1-2) 103-119
Grimes ST, Mattey DP, Hooker JJ & Collinson ME (2004) 'Testing the concordance of oxygen isotope palaeotemperatures obtained from mammal tooth phosphate and freshwater carbonate and phosphate palaeoproxies: an Eocene example from the Hampshire Basin, UK' Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 967-976
Grimes ST, Mattey DP, Collinson ME & Hooker JJ (2004) 'Using mammal tooth phosphate with freshwater carbonate and phosphate palaeoproxies to obtain mean paleotemperatures' Quaternary Science Reviews 23, (7-8) 967-976
Butler I, Rickard D, Grimes S & Oldroyd A (2003) 'Nucleation and growth of pyrite on pyrite seeds' Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 225, U912-U913
Grimes ST, Mattey DP, Hooker JJ & Collinson ME (2003) 'Paleogene paleoclimate reconstruction using oxygen isotopes from land and freshwater organisms: the use of multiple paleoproxies' Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67, (21) 4033-4047
Grimes ST, Davies KL, Butler IB, Brock F, Edwards D, Rickard D, Briggs DEG & Parkes RJ (2002) 'Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: the use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritization' Journal of the Geological Society 159, 493-501
Mattey DP, Grimes ST, Hooker JJ & Collinson ME (2002) 'Testing concordance of oxygen isotope palaeotemperatures obtained from associated rodent tooth phosphate and freshwater carbonate: an Eocene example from the Hampshire Basin' Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66, (15A) A493-A493
Lindars ES, Grimes ST, Mattey DP, Collinson ME, Hooker JJ & Jones TP (2001) 'Phosphate delta O-18 determination of modern rodent teeth by direct laser fluorination: An appraisal of methodology and potential application to palaeoclimate reconstruction' Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65, (15) 2535-2548
Grimes ST, Brock F, Rickard D, Davies KL, Edwards D, Briggs DEG & Parkes RJ (2001) 'Understanding fossilization: Experimental pyritization of plants' Geology 29, (2) 123-126
Grimes S, Rickard D, Hawkesworth C, van Calsteren P & Browne P (2000) 'The Broadlands-Ohaaki geothermal system, New Zealand Part 1. Strontium isotope distribution in well BrO-29' CHEMICAL GEOLOGY 163, (1-4) 247-265 , DOI
Grimes S, Rickard D, Browne P, Simmons S & Jull T (1999) 'Sub-aqueous sulfur volcanoes at Waiotapu, New Zealand' GEOTHERMICS 28, (6) 729-738 , DOI
Grimes S, Rickard D, Hawkesworth C, van Calsteren P & Browne P (1998) 'A U-Th calcite isochron age from an active geothermal field in New Zealand' JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH 81, (3-4) 327-333 , DOI
Reviews
Domingo L, Cuevas-Gonzalez J, Grimes ST, Hernandez Fernandez M & Lopez-Martinez N (2009) 'Multiproxy reconstruction of the palaeoclimate and palaeoenvironment of the Middle Miocene Somosaguas site (Madrid, Spain) using herbivore dental enamel' PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY 272, (1-2) 53-68 , DOI
Chapters
Hooker JJ, Grimes ST, Mattey DP, Collinson ME & Sheldon ND (2009) 'Refined correlation of the UK Late Eocene– Early Oligocene Solent Group and timing of its climate history' in Koeberl C; Montanari A The Late Eocene Earth—Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts The Geological Society of America 179-195
Price GD & Grimes ST (2007) 'New approaches for quantifying the Cretaceous terrestrial climate record' in Williams M; Haywood AM; Gregory FJ; Schmidt DN Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change Geological Society Publishing House 225- 234
Conference Papers
Willcocks F, Grimes ST & Stephen NR (2021) 'COMPARATIVE PLANETOLOGY OF THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM; USING FLOOD BASALTS ON THE MOON (LUNAR MARIA), MARS (THARSIS & ELYSIUM), AND EARTH TO INVESTIGATE THE MAGMATIC EVOLUTION OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM' Open access
Domingo L, Grimes S, Soler-Gijon R & Lopez M (2008) 'APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF BA/CA AND δ<SUP>18</SUP>O<sub>PO4</sub> PALAEOTHERMOMETERS IN LEPISOSTEID SCALES' 72A-72A
Presentations and posters
Rickard D, Grimes S, Butler I, Oldroyd A & Davies KL Rickard D, Grimes S, Butler I, Oldroyd A & Davies KL 'Botanical constraints on pyrite formation'
Boulton S, VanDeVelde J & Grimes S Boulton S, VanDeVelde J & Grimes S 'Palaeoenvironmental and tectonic significance of Miocene lacustrine and palustrine carbonates (Ait Kandoula Formation, Ouarzazate Foreland Basin, Morocco): insights into the development of the High Atlas Mountains'
Willcocks FM, Stephen NR, Grimes ST & Mitchell JT Willcocks FM, Stephen NR, Grimes ST & Mitchell JT 'A New Terrestrial Analogue for Martian Volcanism; An Unexpected Match for the Shergottite Meteorites' Author Site , DOI
Other Publications
Willcocks FM, Stephen NR, Mitchell JT & Grimes ST FW230330_Willcocksetal_SupplementaryData. Open access
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Conferences organised

15th March 2012.

Member of the committee which organized a Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting entitled 'BUILDING A HABITABLE PLANET: The Geochemistry of Earth, Oceans and Atmospheres'

4th March 2010.

Member of the committee which organized a Geochemistry Group Research in Progress Meeting entitled “Carbon System Science” held at Burlington House, London.

15th September 2003.

Member of the committee which organized a Mineralogical Society Conference “Isotopic analysis of minerals” held at Royal Holloway University of London.

 

 

Other academic activities

Member of the Faculty of Science and Technology Student Compact Working Group.

Member of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science web page development group.