- Jane Francis
Jane Francis is a
palaeobotanist [ [http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/Word_files/CClifesci.doc Interview,2001] ] , who in 2002 became the fourth woman to receive thePolar Medal [ [http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/480/honours.htm Award by Queen] ] .Education
After graduating with first and second degrees in
Geology from theUniversity of Southampton , Francis was an NERC Post-doctoral student at Bedford College, London University.Academic career
From 1984 until 1986 she was Palaeobotanist to the
British Antarctic Survey , followed by 5 years as a Research Associate at the University of Adelaide. In 1991 she was appointed a Lecturer inEarth Sciences at theUniversity of Leeds , Senior Lecturer in 1996 and Professor in 2004 [ [http://www.wrce.org.uk/el2francis.htm Example of course she leads] ] .Major awards
In 2003 Francis was awarded the
Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. She has additionally been awarded [ [http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/igs/seddies/francis/awards.htm Her web-site] ] the President's Award from the Palaeontological Society and the US Navy Antarctic medal.Bibliography
*Frakes, L.A., Francis, J.E. and Syktus, J.I. 1992 Climate Modes of the Phanerozoic. Cambridge University Press.
*Francis, J.E. 1988. A 50-million-year-old fossil forest from Strathcona Fiord, Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada: evidence for a warm polar climate. Arctic, 41, 314-318.
*Francis, J.E. (1991). The dynamics of polar fossil forests: Tertiary fossil forests of Axel Heiberg Island, Canadian Arctic. In: Christie, R.L. and McMillan, N.J. (Eds.) Fossil Forests of Tertiary age in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 403, 29-38.
*Francis, J. E., Woolfe, K. J., Arnot, M. J. and Barrett, P. J. 1994. Permian climates of the southern margins of Pangea: evidence from fossil wood in Antarctica. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, 17, 275-282.
*Francis, J. E. and Poole, I. 2002 Cretaceous and early Tertiary climates of Antarctica: evidence from fossil wood. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 182, 47-64.
*Poole, I. and Francis, J.E., 2000. The first record of fossil wood of the Winteraceae from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Ann. Bot. 85, 307-318.References
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