Speakers

Jan Zalasiewicz is a senior lecturer in geology at the University of Leicester, U.K., previously of the British Geological Survey.  He has a B.Sc. in geology from Sheffield University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  A field geologist and palaeontologist, he has served as chair of the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London.  Interests include comparing contemporary environmental change with deep-time geological change and the concept of the Anthropocene -- the epoch of geological time dominated by human activity.  He is author of The Earth After Us (2008) and The Planet in a Pebble (in press, 2010).