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Personal Information
College Photo Name Wyse Jackson, Patrick
Main Department Geology
College Title Senior Lecturer & Curator of the Museum
E-mail wysjcknp@tcd.ie
College Tel +353 1 896 1477
Web http://people.tcd.ie/wysjcknp
Fax +353 1 671 1199
 
Representations
Details Date
International Bryozoology Association Council Member 1992-date; Conference volume faciliator 2001-date; President-Elect 2010-date 1992-date
History of the Earth Sciences Society (U.S.A.) Councilor-at-large 2001-2003
Geological Curators’ Group, Editor 1993-2006
Geological Curators' Group, Chairman 2002-2004
National Committee for the History of Science in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy Member 1996-date; Chair 2005-2009 1996-
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Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies
Details Date From Date To
International Commission on the History of Geology (INHIGEO) 1994
Palaeontological Association 1988
Paleontological Society 1990
History of Earth Sciences Society
Society for the History of Natural History
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Languages
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
 
Description of Research Interests
Palaeontology; Palaeozoic bryozoans; Recent bryozoans; History of Geology; History of Science in Ireland; Building Stones and materials.
 
Research Interests
Bryozoans Building Stone Building Stones Carboniferous, Devonian and Ordovician geology of Ireland
Earth Science Fossil and Living Bryozoans Fossils Geological Museums
Geology Geology for the General Public History of Geology History of Science
Palaeontology Paleontology, Paleoecology Plate Tectonics
 
Research Projects
Project title Palaeozoic Bryozoans of Ireland, Britain and Europe
Summary
Funding Agency None
Programme
Type of Project
Date from 1988
Date to ongoing
Person Months
Project title Revision of Bryozoa, Part G, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Fenestrata
Summary
Funding Agency Geological Society of America/University of Kansas
Programme
Type of Project
Date from 2000
Date to 2011
Person Months
Project title GEOSCHOL - Geology for schools in Ireland
Summary This project will provide outreach materials to schools to promote an awareness of Ireland's geological heritage.
Funding Agency Government of Ireland (€120,000)
Programme Griffith Awards
Type of Project
Date from October 2007
Date to September 2009
Person Months 12
Project title The black and white photographs of John Joly
Summary John Joly (1857–1933), Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, TCD, was a skillful photographer who invented a method of colour photography. He left a large collection of b/w glass negatives and these will be scaanned and archivally stored.
Funding Agency The Heritage Council
Programme Museum and Archives Award Scheme
Type of Project
Date from 2006
Date to 2007
Person Months
 
Publications
Peer Reviewed
Patrick N. Wyse Jackson, The Chronologers' Quest: episodes in the search for the age of the Earth, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 1 - 296pp
P.N. Wyse Jackson, Bryozoa from Waulsortian buildups and their lateral facies (Mississippian, Carboniferous) in Belgium and Ireland., Senckenberg, Courier Forschungsinstitut, 257, 2006, p149 - 160
Bryozoen in, editor(s)M.R.W. Amler & D. Stoppel , Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (Hrsg.): Stratigraphie von Deutschland VI. Unterkabon (Mississippian)., Hanover, Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gellschaft für Geowissenschaften, 2006, pp101 - 105, [H.M. Weber & P.N. Wyse Jackson]
P.N. Wyse Jackson, The Honorable George Knox (1765–1827) parliamentarian and mineral collector., Mineralogical Record, 37, (6), 2006, p543 - 551
The Geological Curator, 8, 5, (2006), 203 - 268p, P.N. Wyse Jackson, [eds.]
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