Upcoming Lectures

The Fossils Being Formed Today Will Show how Humankind Disrupted Life on Earth

Prof Mark Williams

Mark Williams is Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. He researches and teaches Earth evolution, palaeontology, climate and environmental change, and has a particular interest in the Anthropocene.

He is the co-author of the popular books 'The Goldilocks Planet', 'Ocean worlds', 'Skeletons the frame of life' and of the forthcoming 'The cosmic oasis' (all Oxford University Press). He is also the coauthor of 'The Anthropocene - a multidisciplinary approach' (Polity books).

He has worked on all continents, and in all terranes from Antarctic icescapes, to the deserts of North Africa and central Asia, to the jungles of southeast Asia.