Professor Dave Waters

Dave Waters was formerly Curator of Mineralogical and Petrological Collections in the Museum, and Associate Professor of Metamorphic Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences. He is an Emeritus Fellow of St Cross College, and an Honorary Life Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He continues to do research on the fundamental processes involved in the metamorphism of rocks and their application to continental tectonics, making use of the Museum’s petrological collections and his own extensive sample suites, and he is involved in a number of local and international scientific collaborations. His personal web site is at http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/~davewa.