Liam Herringshaw

10 Stewart Avenue
St John's
Email: lherringshaw (at) mun (dot) ca

Now living in St. John's, Liam Herringshaw is originally from Leicester, hometown of David Icke, the Elephant Man, and Engelbert Humperdinck. Liam is a palaeontologist, but knows next to nothing about dinosaurs. His research focuses on ancient marine ecosystems, and it was these old lost seas that brought him from the U.K. to Newfoundland, where he works as a postdoctoral fellow in the Earth Science department of Memorial University. Prior to arriving in Canada, he studied and worked in Liverpool, Birmingham and Aberdeen.

Liam has published scientific articles in a number of international journals, palaeontological, geological and zoological, served as thematic editor for Aquatic Biology, and technical editor for a NATO Science Series volume on urban groundwater. He is Newsletter Reporter for the Palaeontological Association and a member of the Paleontological Society. Outside of academic work, he writes articles on natural and scientific history, sport and travel, and occasionally attempts poetry. At present, he is researching a biography of the naturalist Henry Walter Bates, an alternative travel guide to Aberdeen, and a book on the legendary figures of Leicester. When not trying to write (scientifically or otherwise) Liam fritters away his time with beer, books, cricket, photography, pop music, and walking.

Writing experience and achievements

BBC Wildlife Magazine Young Poet of the Year, runner-up, for Ditheism (1995)

Sports writer/reporter, Liverpool Gazette (1996-97), Redbrick, Birmingham (2000-02) and www.sporting-heroes.net (2003-04)

Contributor/reporter, newsletter of the Palaeontological Association (1999-date)

President's Prize of the Palaeontological Association for Cornulites serpularius: Pursuing a Palaeozoic Enigma (2002)

Technical Editor, Urban Groundwater Management and Sustainability, NATO Science Series vol. 74 (2006)

Scientific papers published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Palaeontology, Scottish Journal of Geology, Aquatic Biology, Lethaia, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, and Palaios.