Curriculum vitae - Mark Naylor

DoB

05/08/1978

Nationality

British

Employment

Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences, 2004-
EPSERC NANIA Cluster PostDoc
Complex Systems in the GeoSciences

Education

Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences, 2000-2004
NERC funded PhD
Discrete Element Modelling of Orogenesis
Oxford University, Department of Physics, 1996-2000
MPhys 2:1
Major options in: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Physics; Condensed Matter Physics
Hessle High School, 1994-1996
A-level: Maths-A Physics-A Biology-B Chemistry-B
GCSE: 4 A*, 5A

Research Interests

Tectonic-surface process and feedbacks
Complex Systems
Limits on Earthquake Predictability
Discrete Element Modeling
Driven Complex Network
Granular Materials

Computing Skills

Operating systems : Linux, Unix, Windows
Programming : Perl, Fortran, Java, NetBeans IDE, BASH
Web design: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Word processing : LaTex, Word, OpenOffice, Abiword, Nedit
Spreadsheets and statistics: Excel, OpenOffice, S++, R
Graphics and presentation: Power Point, GIMP, ImageMagick GMT, Corel Draw

Summer Schools Attended

Global Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, DAMPT, Cambridge, 2002
Earth Systems Science Summer School, UAE, Norwich, 2001

Awards

  • NERC funding for 'Global Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School', 2002
  • Sheila Hall Trust, Dept. Geology and Geophysics, 2001
  • Small Projects Grant, University of Edinburgh, 2001
  • Wier Fund for Field Studies, 2001
  • NERC funding for 'Earth Systems Science Summer School', 2001
  • AC Irvine Travel Fund , 1998,1999,2000
  • St Edmund Hall Travel Fund, 1998,1999,2000

Teaching

Lecturing Experience

  • Cover for three introductory seismology lectures

Demonstrating

  • Mathematical Methods
  • Computational Techniques
  • Fortran
  • Introduction to Excel
  • Introduction to HTML
  • More HTML

Experiences out with the PhD

I spent four months employed in the Geodynamics Group, University of Washington, Seattle (2002). Here I was employed to develop my discrete element code to their research project

I worked with Fin Stuart, SUERC, East Kilbride, investigating and modelling low temperature isotherms in orogens (2001). To put this work in the context of (U-Th)/He thermochronometry, I wrote a 2D helium diffusion model to predict ages in apatite given a time temperature history

Field assistant to Ladakh, Himalaya (2001) to collect apatite (U-Th)/He samples to constrain the evolution of the Ladakh Batholith.

Field assistant on two trips to the Pyrenees (2000) to collect apatite (U-Th)/He samples and geomorphological data (2003)

Throughout my PhD I have done web design work for various academics.

Conference Abstracts

Natural Variability in the Tectonic Forcing of Mountain Landscapes.
NAYLOR, M., SINCLAIR, H.D.
Geological Society of London, William Smith Meeting, Catastrophy and Continuity in Landscape Evolution, 2004.

Modeling the Role of Basal Friction on Thrust Wedge Asymmetry.
NAYLOR, M., SINCLAIR, H.D., COWIE, P.A.
Penrose Conference, Taiwan, 2003.

Numerical Investigation of Drainage Network Evolution During Fault Interaction and Linkage.
COWIE, P A., NAYLOR, M. and WHITTAKER, A.,
AGU San Francisco, 2003.

A Discrete Element Model to Orogenesis.
NAYLOR, M., H.D., COWIE, P.A. and WILLETT, S.,
NERC Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, 2002.

Modeling of Tectonic-Surface Process Feedback on Strain Localisation During Orogenesis Using a Discrete Element Model.
NAYLOR, M., COWIE, P.A. and SINCLAIR, H.D.
Earth System Processes - Global Meeting (June 24-28, 2001)

Publications

A Discrete Element Model for Orogenesis and Accretionary Wedge Growth.
NAYLOR, M., SINCLAIR, H.D., WILLETT, S. and COWIE, P.A.,
In Press: Journal of Geophysical Research

Measurement and Modelling the Growth of Mountain Belts: a Pyrenean insight.
SINCLAIR, H.D., GIBSON, M., NAYLOR, M. and Morris, R.G.
Submitted American Journal of Science.

The Tectonic Pulse in Mountain Building.
NAYLOR, M. and SINCLAIR, H.D.
In prep.