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Post-Doctoral Research Associate Academic career:  1999 - :Visiting Research Fellow.  Part-time with Information and Archives Natural History Library, BBC Bristol.  Lecturer for University of Bristol, Continuing Education department (geology, archaeology and biology). 1997-1999: English Nature Geological Conservation Review volumes on Mammals and Birds and Permo-Triassic sedimentology and stratigraphy (both volumes forthcoming).   Lecturer for University of Bristol Continuing Education department. 1995: PhD, University of Bristol, Department of Earth Sciences.  Thesis: Sedimentology and Taphonomy of Wealden (Lower Cretaceous bone accumulations. 1991: Geography/Geology BSc Joint Honours, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

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Research Interests
Taphonomy and sedimentology of geological and archaeological vertebrate accumulations.  Experimental taphonomy.

Current Projects
Taphonomy of Early Triassic vertebrate microremains accumulation from Polish cave deposits (part of a joint Polish-British collaboration).  Taxonomic, taphonomic and sedimentological review of the Portishead Fish Beds (with Becky Hitchin).  Taphonomy of Mesozoic vertebrate microremains from Tunisia.  helping Dr. Liz Loeffler produce an electronic catalogue of the Earth Science Department’s museum collection.

Selected Publications
Posmosanu, E. and Cook., E.  2000  Vertebrate taphonomy and dinosaur palaeopathology from a Lower Cretaceous bauxite lens, North West Romania.  Oryctos, 3, 39-51.

Borsuk-Bialynicka, M., Cook, E., Evans, S. E. and Maryanska, T.  1999  A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland.  Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 44 (2) 167-188.

Evans, S. E., Manabe, M., Cook, E., Hirayama, R., Isaji, S., Nicholas, C. J., Unwin, D. M. and Yabumoto, Y.  1998  An Early Cretaceous assemblage from Gifu Prefecture, Japan.  p. 183-186.  In Lucas, S. G., Kirkland, J. L. and Estep, J. W. (eds.) Lower and Midde Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystem.  New Mexico of Natural History and Science Bulletin Number 14.

Wright, J. L., Barrett, P. M., Lockley, M. G. and Cook, E.  1998  A review of the Early Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrate track-bearing strata of England and Spain.  p143-154.  In Lucas, S. G., Kirkland, J. L. and Estep, J. W. (eds.) Lower and Midde Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystem.  New Mexico of Natural History and Science Bulletin Number 14.

Cook, E., Isaji, S. and Manabe, M.  1998  Preliminary results of a taphonomic study of a vertebrate accumulation from the Tetori Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Japan.  Paleontological Research, 2 (1), 47-52.

Benton, M. J., Cook, E., Grigorescu, D., Popa, E. and Tallodi, E.  1997  Dinosaurs and other tetrapods in an Early Cretaceous bauxite-filled fissure, northwestern Romania.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 130, 275-292.

Cook, E.  1997  Sedimentology and vertebrate taphonomy of bone-bearing facies from the Clockhouse Rock Store (Weald Clay, late Hauterivian), Capel, Surrey, UK.  Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 108, 49-56.

Cook, E. and Ross, A. J.  1996  The stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology of the Lower Weald Clay (Hauterivian) at Keymer Tileworks, West Sussex, southern England.   Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 107, 231-239.

Ross, A. J. and Cook, E.  1995  The stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Upper Weald Clay (Barremian) at Smokejacks Brickworks, Ockley, Surrey, England.  Cretaceous Research, 16, 705-716.

Cook, E.  1995  Taphonomy of two non-marine Lower Cretaceous bone accumulations from southeastern England.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 116, 263-270.