Dr Stephen Stukins

Dr Stephen Stukins

Senior curator, micropalaeontology

Department: Earth Sciences
Division: ES Invertebrates and Plants Palaeobiology
Specialisms: Mineralogy Collections
Team: Christopher MillerMichael RumseyRobin Hansen, Stephen Stukins Specialisms: Biostratigraphy, Collections research projects, Micropalaeontology, Palynology with special focus on the Mesozoic and statistical analyses of terrestrial palaeoenvironments

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc (Hons) Geological Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  • MSc Micropalaeontology, University College London, United Kingdom
  • PhD, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Senior Curator of Micropalaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, Department of Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2015 - ongoing
  • Museum Scientist in Micropalaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, Department of Palaeontology/Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2015
  • Non-academic

    Stratigrapher/Palynologist, PetroStrat Ltd, 2010 - 2011

Grants

Re-appraisal of the BP Micropalaeontology Collection at the Natural History Museum
Role: Principal investigatorHill T
Role: Co-investigator
Dates: 2014 - 2017

Committees

Secretary, AASP-The Palynological Society, 2014 - on going.

Editorships

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor and Francis, 2015 - on going.

Publications

Cojocaru R, Mannix O, Capron M, Miller CG, Jouneau P-H, Gallet B, Falconet D, Pacureanu A, Stukins S (2022) A biological nanofoam: The wall of coniferous bisaccate pollen. Science Advances, 8 (6) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd0892

STUKINS S (2022) IS ABERRANCY A RELIABLE INDICATOR FOR MAJOR PALEOCLIMATIC DISTURBANCE?. PALAIOS, 37 (5) : 145 - 149. doi: 10.2110/palo.2021.019

Fox L, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58501-w

Larkin NR, Duffin CJ, Dey S, Stukins S, Falkingham P (2020) The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 131 (6) : 722 - 729. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.07.012

Fenton IS, Baranowski U, Boscolo-Galazzo F, Cheales H, Fox L, King DJ, Larkin C, Latas M, Liebrand D, Miller CG, Nilsson-Kerr K, Piga E, Pugh H, Remmelzwaal S, Roseby ZA, Smith YM, Stukins S, Taylor B, Woodhouse A, Worne S, Pearson PN, Poole CR, Wade BS, Purvis A (null) Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (2) : 431 - 443. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-431-2018

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Bailey HW (null) New species of Mesozoic benthic foraminifera from the former British Petroleum micropalaeontology collection. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (1) : 395 - 401. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-395-2018

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Bailey H (null) New species of Cenozoic benthic foraminifera from the former British Petroleum micropalaeontology collection. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (1) : 11 - 16. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-11-2018

Stukins S, Liu AG, Menon LR, Matthews JJ, McIlroy D (2017) Organic-Walled Microfossils from the late Ediacaran Stretton Group of Shropshire, U.K.. Presented at International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition, 2017.

Rybicki M, Marynowski L, Stukins S, Nejbert K (2017) Age and Origin of the Well-Preserved Organic Matter in Internal Sediments from the Silesian-Cracow Lead-Zinc Deposits, Southern Poland. Economic Geology, 112 (4) : 775 - 798. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.112.4.775

van Cappelle M, Stukins S, Hampson GJ, Johnson HD (2016) Fluvial to tidal transition in proximal, mixed tide-influenced and wave-influenced deltaic deposits: Cretaceous lower Sego Sandstone, Utah, USA. Sedimentology, 63 (6) : 1333 - 1361. doi: 10.1111/sed.12267

Dunne E, Stukins S, Purvis A (null) The John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology, a Big Data archive: A case study into the spatio-temporal richness of Aquilapollenites. The Micropalaeontological Society: Rock to Clock: the importance of microfossils Symposium and Society AGM, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Stukins S, van Cappelle M, Daly RJ, Hampson GJ, Johnson HD (null) PALYNOLOGICAL CONTENT AND PALYNOFACIES ANALYSIS OF A MIXED TIDE- AND WAVE-INFLUENCED DELTAIC DEPOSIT: THE CRETACEOUS SEGO SANDSTONE, UTAH, USA. 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, 111 11 - 1 11 11

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Bailey H, Miller G (2015) BP Micropalaeontology project: Mapping palaeoenvironmental changes through geological time. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Hill T, Stukins S, Fox L, Bailey H, Miller G (2015) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: A review of progress to date regarding the reappraisal of the former British Petroleum collection at the Natural History Museum, London. Oral Presentation. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Simmons M, Hughes GW, Whittaker JE, Hill T, Stukins S, Smith K (2015) Stratigraphic Sudoku - Making the Most of Microfossils in the Middle East. Oral Presentation. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Smith K (null) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: the reappraisal of previsouly unused microfossil data from the former British Petroleum Collection at the Natural History Museum.. Micropalaeontological phylogenies and their applications, 1911 11 - 19 11 11

Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Smith KV (2014) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: the reappraisal of previously unused microfossil data from the former British Petroleum Collection at The Natural History Museum, London. The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting, 1911 11 - 19 11 1113 - 14.

Stukins S (null) A PALYNOLOGICAL RECORD OF BATHONIAN MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL PALAEOENVIRONMENTS FROM THE GREAT OOLITE GROUP OF WOODEATON QUARRY, OXFORDSHIRE, UK. 4th International Palaeontological Congress. The History of Life: A View from the Southern Hemisphere, 289 9 - 28 9 9907 - 907.

Hill T, Stukins S, Whittaker JE, Hughes GW, Simmons M (2014) The Mesozoic benthonic foraminifera of the Middle East. Presented at The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting.

Smith KV, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Bailey H (2014) The former British Petroleum Northwest European Reference Collection. Presented at The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting.

Stukins S, Jolley DW, McIlroy D, Hartley AJ (2013) Middle Jurassic vegetation dynamics from allochthonous palynological assemblages: An example from a marginal marine depositional setting; Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 392 : 117 - 127. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.002

Riding JB, Pound MJ, Hill TCB, Stukins S, Feist-Burkhardt S (2012) The John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology. Palynology, 36 (2) : 224 - 233. doi: 10.1080/01916122.2012.682512

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Miller C (null) CHALLENGER REVISITED: Illuminating Anthropogenic Climate Change with 150 years of Ocean Science. Shackleton Conference : Marine Geoscience, Past, Present, and Future, 189 9 - 18 9 9

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Miller C, Vaccaro E (null) CHALLENGER REVISITED: Illuminating Anthropogenic Climate Change with 150 years of Ocean Science. he Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1511 11 - 15 11 11

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) Former BP Micropalaeontology Collection Palaeo-GIS project: Palaeoenvironmental significance of benthic foraminiferal biofacies in the North Sea. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual General Meeting, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) The Former BP Micropalaeontology Collection Palaeo-GIS project: Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Central North Sea Basin using benthic foraminiferal biofacies. Foraminifera and Nannofossil Meeting, 196 6 - 19 6 6

Rillo MC, Whittaker J, Ezard THG, Purvis A, Henderson AS, Stukins S, Giles Miller C (null) The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Micropalaeontology, jmpaleo2016 - 020. doi: 10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020

Stukins S, Fox L, hill T, miller C (null) A Palynological Analysis of the Late Jurassic Ula Formation, Ula Field, NOCS: BP PalaeoGIS Project. The Golden Anniversary Meeting of AASP - The Palynological Society,, 39 9 - 3 9 9

Stukins S, McIlroy D, Jolley DW (2017) Refining palaeoenvironmental analysis using integrated quantitative granulometry and palynology. Petroleum Geoscience, 23 (4) : 395 - 402. doi: 10.1144/petgeo2016-073

Courses taught

MSc: Applied Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy
2013 - on going.

MSc: Applied Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy
2013 - on going.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ball A
Co supervisor(s): Wellman C
The Late Silurian - Early Devonian Adaptive Radiation ('Explosion') of Vascular Plants
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC ACCE DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Walley R
Co supervisor(s): Twitchett R
Drivers of marine ecosystem change through the end Triassic extinction and recovery
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC Spitfire DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Piga E
Co supervisor(s): Hill T
How Hot is Hot? Palaeotemperatures in the Eocene Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC GW4+
1/10/2015 - on going.

Master's Co-supervisor to Dunne E
Going digital: Historical distribution and temporal diversity of Aquilapollenites using data from the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology (by Emma Dunne)
17/4/2015 - 17/9/2015.

Introduction

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc (Hons) Geological Sciences, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
  • MSc Micropalaeontology, University College London, United Kingdom
  • PhD, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Employment history

    Academic

  • Senior Curator of Micropalaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, Department of Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2015 - ongoing
  • Museum Scientist in Micropalaeontology, The Natural History Museum, London, Department of Palaeontology/Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2012 - 2015
  • Non-academic

    Stratigrapher/Palynologist, PetroStrat Ltd, 2010 - 2011

Projects

Grants

Re-appraisal of the BP Micropalaeontology Collection at the Natural History Museum
Role: Principal investigatorHill T
Role: Co-investigator
Dates: 2014 - 2017

Professional activities

Committees

Secretary, AASP-The Palynological Society, 2014 - on going.

Editorships

Associate editor, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Taylor and Francis, 2015 - on going.

Publications

Publications

Cojocaru R, Mannix O, Capron M, Miller CG, Jouneau P-H, Gallet B, Falconet D, Pacureanu A, Stukins S (2022) A biological nanofoam: The wall of coniferous bisaccate pollen. Science Advances, 8 (6) : doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abd0892

STUKINS S (2022) IS ABERRANCY A RELIABLE INDICATOR FOR MAJOR PALEOCLIMATIC DISTURBANCE?. PALAIOS, 37 (5) : 145 - 149. doi: 10.2110/palo.2021.019

Fox L, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) Quantifying the Effect of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Calcifying Plankton. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-58501-w

Larkin NR, Duffin CJ, Dey S, Stukins S, Falkingham P (2020) The first tetrapod track recorded from the Rhaetian in the British Isles. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 131 (6) : 722 - 729. doi: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2020.07.012

Fenton IS, Baranowski U, Boscolo-Galazzo F, Cheales H, Fox L, King DJ, Larkin C, Latas M, Liebrand D, Miller CG, Nilsson-Kerr K, Piga E, Pugh H, Remmelzwaal S, Roseby ZA, Smith YM, Stukins S, Taylor B, Woodhouse A, Worne S, Pearson PN, Poole CR, Wade BS, Purvis A (null) Factors affecting consistency and accuracy in identifying modern macroperforate planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (2) : 431 - 443. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-431-2018

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Bailey HW (null) New species of Mesozoic benthic foraminifera from the former British Petroleum micropalaeontology collection. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (1) : 395 - 401. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-395-2018

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Bailey H (null) New species of Cenozoic benthic foraminifera from the former British Petroleum micropalaeontology collection. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 (1) : 11 - 16. doi: 10.5194/jm-37-11-2018

Stukins S, Liu AG, Menon LR, Matthews JJ, McIlroy D (2017) Organic-Walled Microfossils from the late Ediacaran Stretton Group of Shropshire, U.K.. Presented at International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition, 2017.

Rybicki M, Marynowski L, Stukins S, Nejbert K (2017) Age and Origin of the Well-Preserved Organic Matter in Internal Sediments from the Silesian-Cracow Lead-Zinc Deposits, Southern Poland. Economic Geology, 112 (4) : 775 - 798. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.112.4.775

van Cappelle M, Stukins S, Hampson GJ, Johnson HD (2016) Fluvial to tidal transition in proximal, mixed tide-influenced and wave-influenced deltaic deposits: Cretaceous lower Sego Sandstone, Utah, USA. Sedimentology, 63 (6) : 1333 - 1361. doi: 10.1111/sed.12267

Dunne E, Stukins S, Purvis A (null) The John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology, a Big Data archive: A case study into the spatio-temporal richness of Aquilapollenites. The Micropalaeontological Society: Rock to Clock: the importance of microfossils Symposium and Society AGM, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Stukins S, van Cappelle M, Daly RJ, Hampson GJ, Johnson HD (null) PALYNOLOGICAL CONTENT AND PALYNOFACIES ANALYSIS OF A MIXED TIDE- AND WAVE-INFLUENCED DELTAIC DEPOSIT: THE CRETACEOUS SEGO SANDSTONE, UTAH, USA. 2015 GSA Annual Meeting, 111 11 - 1 11 11

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Bailey H, Miller G (2015) BP Micropalaeontology project: Mapping palaeoenvironmental changes through geological time. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Hill T, Stukins S, Fox L, Bailey H, Miller G (2015) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: A review of progress to date regarding the reappraisal of the former British Petroleum collection at the Natural History Museum, London. Oral Presentation. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Simmons M, Hughes GW, Whittaker JE, Hill T, Stukins S, Smith K (2015) Stratigraphic Sudoku - Making the Most of Microfossils in the Middle East. Oral Presentation. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Smith K (null) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: the reappraisal of previsouly unused microfossil data from the former British Petroleum Collection at the Natural History Museum.. Micropalaeontological phylogenies and their applications, 1911 11 - 19 11 11

Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Smith KV (2014) The BP Palaeo-GIS project: the reappraisal of previously unused microfossil data from the former British Petroleum Collection at The Natural History Museum, London. The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting, 1911 11 - 19 11 1113 - 14.

Stukins S (null) A PALYNOLOGICAL RECORD OF BATHONIAN MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL PALAEOENVIRONMENTS FROM THE GREAT OOLITE GROUP OF WOODEATON QUARRY, OXFORDSHIRE, UK. 4th International Palaeontological Congress. The History of Life: A View from the Southern Hemisphere, 289 9 - 28 9 9907 - 907.

Hill T, Stukins S, Whittaker JE, Hughes GW, Simmons M (2014) The Mesozoic benthonic foraminifera of the Middle East. Presented at The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting.

Smith KV, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG, Bailey H (2014) The former British Petroleum Northwest European Reference Collection. Presented at The Micropalaeontological Society 3rd Annual Meeting.

Stukins S, Jolley DW, McIlroy D, Hartley AJ (2013) Middle Jurassic vegetation dynamics from allochthonous palynological assemblages: An example from a marginal marine depositional setting; Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 392 : 117 - 127. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.09.002

Riding JB, Pound MJ, Hill TCB, Stukins S, Feist-Burkhardt S (2012) The John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology. Palynology, 36 (2) : 224 - 233. doi: 10.1080/01916122.2012.682512

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Miller C (null) CHALLENGER REVISITED: Illuminating Anthropogenic Climate Change with 150 years of Ocean Science. Shackleton Conference : Marine Geoscience, Past, Present, and Future, 189 9 - 18 9 9

Fox LR, Hill T, Stukins S, Miller C, Vaccaro E (null) CHALLENGER REVISITED: Illuminating Anthropogenic Climate Change with 150 years of Ocean Science. he Micropalaeontological Society Annual Conference, 1511 11 - 15 11 11

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) Former BP Micropalaeontology Collection Palaeo-GIS project: Palaeoenvironmental significance of benthic foraminiferal biofacies in the North Sea. The Micropalaeontological Society Annual General Meeting, 1611 11 - 16 11 11

Fox LR, Stukins S, Hill T, Miller CG (null) The Former BP Micropalaeontology Collection Palaeo-GIS project: Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Central North Sea Basin using benthic foraminiferal biofacies. Foraminifera and Nannofossil Meeting, 196 6 - 19 6 6

Rillo MC, Whittaker J, Ezard THG, Purvis A, Henderson AS, Stukins S, Giles Miller C (null) The unknown planktonic foraminiferal pioneer Henry A. Buckley and his collection at The Natural History Museum, London. Journal of Micropalaeontology, jmpaleo2016 - 020. doi: 10.1144/jmpaleo2016-020

Stukins S, Fox L, hill T, miller C (null) A Palynological Analysis of the Late Jurassic Ula Formation, Ula Field, NOCS: BP PalaeoGIS Project. The Golden Anniversary Meeting of AASP - The Palynological Society,, 39 9 - 3 9 9

Stukins S, McIlroy D, Jolley DW (2017) Refining palaeoenvironmental analysis using integrated quantitative granulometry and palynology. Petroleum Geoscience, 23 (4) : 395 - 402. doi: 10.1144/petgeo2016-073

Teaching and students

Courses taught

MSc: Applied Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy
2013 - on going.

MSc: Applied Palaeontology/Biostratigraphy
2013 - on going.

Supervision

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Ball A
Co supervisor(s): Wellman C
The Late Silurian - Early Devonian Adaptive Radiation ('Explosion') of Vascular Plants
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC ACCE DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Walley R
Co supervisor(s): Twitchett R
Drivers of marine ecosystem change through the end Triassic extinction and recovery
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC Spitfire DTP
1/10/2018 - on going.

Doctorate (PhD) Co-supervisor to Piga E
Co supervisor(s): Hill T
How Hot is Hot? Palaeotemperatures in the Eocene Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Funding: NERC GW4+
1/10/2015 - on going.

Master's Co-supervisor to Dunne E
Going digital: Historical distribution and temporal diversity of Aquilapollenites using data from the John Williams Index of Palaeopalynology (by Emma Dunne)
17/4/2015 - 17/9/2015.