Bernard Owens

Emeritus Professor of Palynology
Animal and Plant Sciences
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

Professor Plant Sciences
Biography

BSc (1960), PhD (1963), DSc (1989) University of Sheffield National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship with Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa (1963 - 1965) Biostratigrapher, British Geological Survey (1965 - 1986) Manager, Biostratigraphy & Sedimentology Group, British Geological Survey (1986 - 1998) Director, Centre for Palynology, University of Shefield, (1997 - 2001) Palynology Research Facility, University of Sheffield (2001 - present)

Research Intrest

Current research directed towards studies of Late Palaeozoic palynomorph assemblages with particular emphasis on stratigraphic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeolatitudenal variation in assemblages between the Euramerican and Gondwanan palaeocontinents. Current investigations include studies of the Devonian in Oman and Saudi Arabia and the Carboniferous of the UK, central USA, Poland, Saudi Arabia and Siberia.

List of Publications
Spinner E, Owens B, Lunn P. Professor Leslie Rowsell Moore 1912–2003.
Spinner EG, Lunn P, Owens B. OBITUARY: LESLIE ROWSELL MOORE. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 2004 Nov 1;55(2):159-60.
McLean D, Owens B, Neves R. Carboniferous miospore biostratigraphy of the North Sea. Occasional Publication series of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 2005;7:13-24.
McLEAN DU, Owens B, JIŘÍ B, Oliwkiewicz-Miklasińska M. A structural reinterpretation of the enigmatic Carboniferous miospore Pteroretis Felix & Burbridge 1961 emend. nov. Palynology. 2006;30(1):17-32.