Steve Phillips Ph.D. Address 414 Isabella Point Road Saltspring Island, BC, V8K 1V4, Canada Phone: 604-822-2449 Fax: 604-822-6088 Email: sphill@saltspring.com

Education

• B.A. 1987 University of Waterloo
• B.Sc.. 1990 University of Victoria
• Ph.D. 1993 University of British Colombia

Teaching Experience

Dr. Phillips has wide experience with teaching and obtained a teaching certificate from Stratford Teachers's College in 1972. His teaching interests include general geology, tectonics, marine geology, historical geology, geomorphology, organic sedimentology, and field geology. Dr. Phillips' research and education interests have taken him Canada to Panama and Malaysia.

Research Interests

Dr. Phillips' research as well as his personal interests have been focused on coastal investigation in the tropics, most specifically in developing countries. He has spent a great deal of time in Central America, but also has a strong interest in the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. He has focused on the use of local resources and on collaborative ventures with local communities, industry government and NGO's in his field work. Specific research interests include field-based sedimentology in response to environmental change, organic an clastic sedimentology, origins, nature and activity of humic compounds in soils and sediments, and Coastal geomorphology, hydrolology and groundwater geochemistry in relationship to tectonics.

Recent Publications

• 1997 Vegetation zones and diagnostic pollen profile of a coastal peat swamp, Bocas del Toro, Panama. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. No. 128: 301-338.
• 1997 Accumulations of organic rich sediments in a dendritic fluvial/lacustrine mire system at Tasik Bera, Malaysia: implications from coal. Inernat. J. of Coal Geology (in press).
• 1996 Organic and clastic sedimentary response to punctuated coastal subsidence: sedimentology of the Changuinola peat deposit, Panama. Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull. 108 (7): 794-814.
• 1996 Sulfur in the Changuinola peat deposit, Panama, as an indicator of the environments of deposition of peat and coal. J. of Sedimentary Research 66 (1): 184-196.
• 1994 Earthquake-induced flooding of a tropical coastal peat swamp: A modern analogue for high-sulphure coals? Geology 22 (10) 929-932.