Rachel Wood

Reader in Carbonate Geoscience

• Carbonate Deposition and Diagenesis of the Thamama Group
  

• Modelling of Carbonate Systems

• Reef Evolution

• Carbonates and Catastrophic Change

• Prior Information, Elicitation and Herding Theory

• 2009- Reader in Carbonate Geoscience, University of Edinburgh
• 2006-2009 Lecturer in Carbonate Geoscience, University of Edinburgh
  
• 2001-2006: Principal Research Scientist, Schlumberger Cambridge Research
  
• 1994-2001: Royal Society Research Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
  
• 1990-1994: Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
  
• 1988-1990: NERC Research Fellow, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
  
• 1987-88: Royal Society Exchange Research Fellow, Insitut fur Palaontologie, Freie Universitat, Berlin
  
• 1983-87: Ph. D, Open University
  
• 1980-83: B. Sc. Hons., Geology/Zoology, University of Bristol
  

• Peter Cox [2006-]: Diagenesis of the Thamama Group, U.A.E
  
• Jen Roberts [2009-] Natural carbon dioxide seeps in central Italy

• Yan Zaretskiy [2008]: Low salinity water flooding in carbonates
• Karen Schmid [2008]: Multiphase flow in carbonates

• Emmanuel Cedillo [2009-]: Palaeo-foodweb quantification across mass extinction events
  

• 2006- Associate Editor, Petroleum Geoscience
  
• 2005- Editorial Board Member, PalaeoWorld

Publications

• WOOD, R.A. 1999. Reef Evolution. Oxford University Press. 414pp.

• JACKSON, P.N.W., PARKES, M.A., WOOD, R.A. (eds.). Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy in
  honour of Charles Hepworth Holland. Special Papers in Palaeontology 67, 260 pp.
  
• CURTIS, A. and WOOD, R. 2003. Geological Prior Information: Informing Science and Engineering. Geological
  Society Special Publication 239, 229 pp.

Refereed papers (in journals or books):

• DICKSON, J.A.D, WOOD, R., COX, P., SHEBL,H., BU AL ROUGHA, H. and CORBETT, P. Dynamics of cemention in response to oil charge: evidence from a Cretaceous carbonate filed, U.A.E. Sedimentary Geology
  
• WOOD, R.A. The evolution of reefs, in Encyclopedia of Modern Coral reefs, Ed. Hopley, D.

• WOOD, R. Reef Taphonomy. In Taphonomy, Allison, P., and Bottjer, D. (eds.) Plenum Press
  
• JAMES, N.P., and WOOD, R.A. Reefs and Reef Mounds. In Facies Models, James, N.P., and Walker, N. (eds.)
• WEST, R.,and WOOD, R. Hypercalcified Sponges. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Volume 5 Ed. Webby, B.
• WOOD, R.A. The Permian Capitan Reef, in Encyclopedia of Modern Coral reefs, Ed. Hopley, D.

• ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu and WOOD, R.A. 2009. Controls on carbonate skeletal mineralogy: global CO₂ evolution and mass extinctions. Geology 37: 1123–1126.
• WOOD, R.A. 2009. Return to the High Table. Book Review, Science,325: 947 - 948.
• HILL, J., TETZLAFF, D., CURTIS, A., and WOOD, R. 2009. Modelling Carbonate Supersaturation on carbonate platforms via residence time. Computers and Geology, 35: 1862-1874.
  
• WOOD, R. 2009. Reefs and changes in seawater chemistry, in The Biology of Coral Reefs (Ed. C R.C. Sheppard, S. K. Davy, and G. M. Pilling), 352 pp.
• ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu and WOOD, R.A. 2008. Eve of biomineralization: controls on carbonate mineralogy. Geology 36: 923-926.
• HASLER, C. A., ADAMS, E. W., WOOD, R. A., and DICKSON, J. A. D. 2008. Fine scale forward modelling of a Devonian patch reef, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Analogue and Numerical Modelling of Sedimentary Systems: From Understanding to Prediction. Eds., de Boer et al. Special Publication 40, IAS. Wiley-Blackwell. 328 pp.
  
• PRICE, D., CURTIS, A. and WOOD, R. 2008. Statistical correlation between geophysical logs and extracted core. Geophysics 73: E97-E106.
  
• DICKSON. J.A.D., WOOD, R.A., SHEBL, H., and BU AL ROUGHA, H. 2008. Sulfate reduction  associated with hardgrounds: lithification afterburn! Sedimentary Geology 205: 34-39.
• DUNNE, J.A., WILLIAMS, R.J., MARTINEZ, N., WOOD, R.A., ERWIN, D.H. 2008. Compilation and Network Analyses of Cambrian Food Webs. PLoS Biology 6: e102-107.
  
• WOOD, R.A. 2007. The changing fate of coral reefs: lessons from the deep past. In Aronson, R.B. (ed). Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology. Springer Verlag, New York. pp. 3-27.
  
• WOOD, R.A. 2007. Frasnian and Famennian Canning Basin Reefs, Western Australia. In VENNIN, E. et al. (eds). Facies from Paleozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Publications Scientifique du Museum, Paris.
• KERSHAW, S., WOOD, R. & GUO, L. 2006. Stromatoporoid response to muddy substrates in Silurian limestones.GFF 128: 131-138.,
• HILL, J., CURTIS, A., WOOD, R. and TETZLAFF, D.  2005. Modelling complexity in carbonates. Proceedings of Mathematical Geology
• WOOD, R. 2004. Palaeoecology of a post-extinction reef: the Famennian of the Canning Basin, Western Australia.Palaeontology, 47: 415-44
• KAYSER, A., GRAS, R., CURTIS, A. & WOOD, R. 2004: New Way to Visualize Internal Rock Structures.Offshore Magazine, August Issue, pp. 129-131.
• BADDELEY, M., CURTIS, A. and WOOD, R. 2004. Herding in an uncertain world: the role of prior information, pp. 15-27. In, Curtis, A. and Wood, R. (eds.), Geological Prior Information , Geolological Society of London, Special Publication, v. 239.
• CURTIS, A. and WOOD, R. 2004. Optimal elicitation of prior information from experts. pp. 127-145. In, Curtis, A. and Wood, R. (eds.), Geological Prior Information , Geolological Society of London, Special Publication, v. 239.
• WOOD, R. and CURTIS, A. 2004. Solving Geoscientific Problems Using Geological Prior Information. pp. 1-13. In, Curtis, A. and Wood, R. (eds.), Geological Prior Information, Geolological Society of London, Special Publication, v. 239.
• WOOD, R. A. 2002. Sponges. In SMITH, A.B. (ed.): Fossils of the Chalk, p. 25-41 Palaeontological Association Field Guide no. 2, 374pp.
• FORSYTHE, G.T.W, WOOD, R.A., and DICKSON, J.A.D. 2002. Mass spawning in ancient reef communities: evidence from Late Paleozoic phylloid algae. Palaios 17: 615-621.
• WOOD, R.A., GROTZINGER, J.P. and DICKSON, J.A.D. 2002. Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group. Science 296: 2383-2386.
• WOOD, R.A. 2002. Predation in ancient reef-builders. In Kelley, P. H, Kowalewski, M., and Hansen, T.A. (eds.),pp. 33-53. Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record, Topics in Geobiology, volume 20. Klewer Press, New York, 464 pp.
• WOOD, R.A., and GROTZINGER, J.P. 2001. The rise of clonality in early skeletal metazoans. American Zoologist, 41: 1629.
• WOOD, R.A. 2001. Tiering in the late Palaeozoic. Macmillan Encyclopaedia (Electronic publication).
• WOOD, R.A. 2001. Archaeocyatha. MacGaw Encyclopaedia (Electronic publication).
• WOOD, R.A. 2001. Evolution of reefs. p. 57-62. In Briggs, D.E.G., and Crowther, P.R. Palaeobiology II. 583 pp.
• WOOD, R.A. 2001. Are reefs and mud-mounds really so different? Sedimentary Geology 145: 161-171.
• WOOD, R.A. 2001. Biodiversity and the history of reefs. Geological Journal 36: 251-263.
• ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu., WOOD, R.A., PRATT, B.R. and SPINCER, B. 2000. Lower Cambrian reef ecology. In ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu. and RIDING, R. (eds.): Advances in Cambrian Ecology. Columbia University Press.
• WOOD, R.A. 2000. Paleoecology of the Capitan reef. In SALLER, A.H., HARRIS, P.M., KIRKLAND, B.L., and MAZZULLO, S. (eds.): Geological Framework of the Capitan Reef. SEPM Special Publication, 65: 129-137.
• WOOD, R.A. and OPPENHEIMER, C. 2000. Spur-and-groove morphology from a Late Devonian reef. Sedimentary Geology 133: 185-193.
• de WET, C.B., DICKSON, J.A.D., WOOD, R.A., and GASWIRTH, S.B. 2000. A new type of shelf margin deposit: rigid microbial sheets and unconsolidated grainstones with meter-scale cavities. Sedimentary Geology 128: 13-21.
• WOOD, R.A. 2000. Novel paleoecology of a post-extinction reef: the Famennian (Late Devonian) of the Canning Basin, Northwestern Australia. Geology 28: 987-990.
• WOOD, R.A. 2000. Palaeoecology of a Late Devonian back reef: Windjana Gorge, Canning Basin, Western Australia. Palaeontology 43: 671-703.
• WOOD, R.A. 1998. The ecology of Lower Cambrian reefs. In KNOWLTON, N. and McINTYRE, I.N. (eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama. 2: 1631-1636.
• WOOD, R.A. 1998. The importance of the cryptos in ancient reefs. In KNOWLTON, N. and McINTYRE, I.N. (eds.): Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama 2: 1687-1692.
• WOOD, R.A. 1998.The ecological evolution of reefs. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29: 179-206.
• WOOD, R.A. 1998. Novel reef fabrics from the Devonian Canning Basin, Western Australia. Sedimentary Geology 121: 149-156.
• KIRKLAND, B., DICKSON, J.A.D., WOOD, R.A., and LAND, L.S. 1998. Microbialite and microstratigraphy: The origin of encrustations in the Capitan Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas and New Mexico. Journal of Sedimentary Petrography 68: 956-969.
• DICKSON, J.A.D., WOOD, R.A. and KIRKLAND-GEORGE, B. 1997.Exceptional preservation of the calcified spongeFissispongia tortacloaca from the Pennsylvanian Holder Formation, New Mexico. Palaios 11: 559-570.
• LINDSAY, J., BRASIER, M.D., DORJNAMJAA, R., GOLDRING, R., KRUSE, P. and WOOD, R. 1996. Facies and sequence controls on the appearance of the Cambrian biota in southwestern Mongolia: implications for the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. Geological Magazine 133: 417-428.
• KRUSE, P.D., GANDIN, A., DEBRENNE, F. and WOOD, R. 1996. Early Cambrian bioconstructions from the Zavkhan Basin, western Mongolia. Geological Magazine 133: 429-444.
• WOOD, R.A., DICKSON, J.A.D., and KIRKLAND, B. 1996. New observations on the ecology of the Permian Capitan Reef, Texas and New Mexico. Palaeontology 39: 733-762.
• ZHURAVLEV, A.Yu. and WOOD, R.A. 1995. Lower Cambrian reefal cryptic communities. Palaeontology 38: 443-470.
• WOOD, R.A. 1995. The changing biology of reef-building. Palaios 10: 517-529.
• ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu. and WOOD, R.A. 1995. Anoxia as the cause of the late Early Cambrian extinction. Geology 24: 311-314.
• WOOD, R.A., DICKSON, J.A.D., and KIRKLAND-GEORGE, B. 1994. Turning the Capitan Reef upside down: a new appraisal of the ecology of the Permian Capitan Reef, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas and New Mexico. Palaios 9: 422-427.
• WOOD, R.A., ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu. and TSEREN, C. 1993. The ecology of early Cambrian buildups from Zuune Arts, Mongolia: implications for early metazoan reef evolution. Sedimentology 40: 829-858.
• WOOD, R.A. 1993. Nutrients, predation and the history of reef-building. Palaios 8: 526-543.
• RIGBY, J.K., BUDD, G., WOOD, R.A. and DEBRENNE, F. 1993. Porifera. In BENTON, M. (ed.): The Fossil Record, p. 71-99.Chapman and Hall, London, 845pp.
• WOOD, R., ZHURAVLEV, F. and DEBRENNE, F. 1992. Functional biology and ecology of the Archaeocyatha.Palaios 7: 131-156.
• WOOD, R.A., EVANS, K.R. and ZHURAVLEV, A. Yu. 1992. A new post-early Cambrian archaeocyath from Antarctica. Geological Magazine 129: 491-495.
• WOOD, R.A. 1991. Non-spicular biomineralization in calcified demosponges. In REITNER, J. and KEUPP, H. (eds.): Fossil and Recent sponges, p. 322-340. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 595pp.
• WOOD, R.A. 1991. Problematic reef-building sponges. In SIMONETTA, A. and CONWAY MORRIS, S. (eds.): The early Evolution of Metazoa and the  significance of problematic taxa, p. 113-124. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 296pp.
• ZHURAVLEV, A.Yu., DEBRENNE, F. and WOOD, R. 1990. A synonymised nomenclature for calcified sponges. Geological Magazine 127: 543-545.
• DEBRENNE, F. and WOOD, R. 1990. A new Cambrian sphinctozoan from North America and the nature of early sphinctozoans.Geological Magazine 127: 445-451.
• WOOD, R., COPPER, P. and REITNER, J. 1990. "Spicules" in halysitids: a reply. Lethaia 23: 113-114.
• WOOD, R. 1990. Reef-building sponges. American Scientist 78: 224-235.
• WOOD, R.A. 1990. The placing of Mesozoic stromatoporoids within the Porifera. In RUETZLER, K. (ed.):New perspectives in Sponge Biology, p. 25-31. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 533pp.
• WOOD, R., REITNER, J. and WEST, R. 1989. Systematics and phylogenetic implications of the haplosclerid stromatoporoid Newellia mira nov. gen. Lethaia 22: 85-93.
• WOOD, R.A. and REITNER, J. 1988. The Upper Cretaceous "chaetetid" demosponge Stromatoaxinella irregularis nov. gen.(MICHELIN) and its systematic implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 177: 213-224.
• WOOD, R.A. 1987. Sponges. In SMITH, A.B. (ed.): Fossils of the Chalk, p. 15-29. Palaeontological Association Field Guide no. 2, 306pp.
• WOOD, R.A. 1987. Biology and revised systematics of some late Mesozoic stromatoporoids. Special Papers in Palaeontology 37: 1-89.
• WOOD, R.A. and REITNER, J. 1986. Poriferan affinities of Mesozoic stromatoporoids. Palaeontology 29: 469-473.

Patents

• WOOD, R., CURTIS, A. and KAYSER, A. 2004. A classification method for sedimentary rocks. [For carbonates, uses x-ray micro-tomography and SEM data]. Granted July 2006.
  
• WOOD, R. 2006. Method for extraction of depositional and diagenetic data from wireline logs.
• WOOD, R. 2009. Method of interpreting well data.