Online Geology Tutor Greg

A-Level - Tutoring UK OCR A-Level curriculum

Undergraduate - Demonstrating to undergraduates during my PhD studies. Teaching at undergraduate level at he University of East Anglia (UK), during a period of postdoctoral study in the 1990s. Recent tutoring of undergraduate students needing guidance on essays and dissertations.

Postgraduate - External examiner for MSc geology programs in the UK (Royal Holloway University of London, UK - Basin Analysis), which included quality assurance of exam question design, and examination of geology and geophysics MSc dissertations. Tutoring of postgraduate students requiring guidance with their PhD research planning, implementation and delivery.

Professional - Last 15 years creating and delivering professional classroom and online courses to industry in geology, geophysics and petrophysics. Over 150 courses delivered to over 3000 students throughou Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia.

Undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral studies have included: Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary Geology, Petroleum Geology, Environmental Sciences (including geology, botany and zoology), coastal management, heavy metal contamination of coastal sediments, various field and laboratory techniques (e.g. mapping, coring and core sampling, thin-section analysis, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy etc).

I am currently teaching the OCR A Level Geology curriculum to several students.

Professional analytical skills include: core and outcrop logging and description, petrographical analysis, geochemical analysis, seismic interpretation, petrophysical interpretation, basic reservoir engineering

Professional taught courses have included: Basin Analysis, Structural Geology, Clastic and Carbonate Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Petrophysics, Geophysics, Reservoir Modelling, Project Management.

I specialise in teaching critical thinking in geoscience, in particular how to employ critical thinking in your dissertation, and make sure that your dissertation demonstrates the critical thinking and problem-solving skills that employers are looking for.

I also specialise in teaching people how to learn, and helping them to learn how to teach, which is the best way to learn! We are all told we need to learn, but we are rarely taught how to learn. I have spent the last 30 years developing my accelerated learning skills, which I can now teach to you. For example, how to write and read a paper (the two are closely linked!), the power of well annotated illustrations, using story-boarding as a planning tool for your writing, mind-mapping, process mapping, systems thinking, causal link diagrams and much more.

Reports and Publications:

I have written and edited 100s of technical reports throughout my career, and published several papers on petroleum geology and environmental sciences, including a chapter on coastal management in apopular environmental management book - "Environmental Science for Environmental Management" (Ed. By Timothy O’Riordan).

ANDREWS, J.E., SAMWAYS, G., DENNIS, P.F. & MAHER B.A. 2000. Origin, abundance and storage of organic carbon and sulphur in the Holocene Humber Estuary - emphasising human impact on storage changes. In: Holocene Land-Ocean Interaction and Environmental Change around the North Sea. (Ed. by I. Shennan and J.E. Andrews), Geological Society Special Publication No. 166, 145-170.

GILES, M.R., STEVENSON, S., MARTIN, S.V., CANNON, S.J.C., HAMILTON, P.J., MARSHALL, J.D. & SAMWAYS, G.M. 1992. The diagenesis and reservoir properties of the Brent Group - a regional perspective. In: MORTON, A.C., HASZELDINE, R.S., GILES, M.R. & BROWN, S. (eds). Geology of the Brent Group. Special Publication of the Geological Society, 147.

JICKELLS, T.D., ANDREWS, J.E., SAMWAYS, G., SANDERS, R., MALCOLM, S., SIVYER, D., PARKER, R., NEDWELL, D. TRIMMER, M. & RIDGWAY, J. 2000. Nutrient fluxes through the Humber estuary – past, present and future. Ambio, 29, 130-135.

O’RIORDAN, T., ANDREWS, J., SAMWAYS, G. & CLAYTON, K. 2000. Coastal Processes and Management. In: Environmental Science for Environmental Management (Ed. By Timothy O’Riordan), Prentice Hall.

RIDGWAY, J., ANDREWS, J.E., ELLIS, S., HORTON, B.P., INNES, J.B., KNOX, R.W.O’B., McARTHUR, J.J., MAHER, B.A, METCALFE, S.E., MITLEHNER, A., PARKES, A., REES, J.G., SAMWAYS, G., & SHENNAN, I. 2000. Analysis and interpretation of Holocene sedimentary sequences in the Humber Estuary. In: Holocene Land-Ocean Interaction and Environmental Change around the North Sea. (Ed. by I. Shennan and J.E. Andrews), Geological Society Special Publication No. 166, 9-39.

SAMWAYS, G., HAUGHTON, P., BOWMAN, M., SMALLEY, C. & PAYNE, D. 1996. Porosity Evolution in Compacted Lithic-rich Sandstones, Jurassic, Western Siberia. Presented at the Russian User Group II Meeting (RUG2) convened by the London Petrophysical Society at the DTI Conference Centre, London, November 1996.