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Michael Howe’s biography

•  2013 – ongoing: Head, National Geological Repository
•  2008 – 2013: Team Leader, Collections Management
•  2000: ���ճԹ� Chief Curator
•  1995 – 2012: Department of Geology, University of Leicester. Honorary Visiting Fellow
•  1979 – 1981: De Montfort University, Leicester. Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies (DMS)
•  1979 – 2000: Various managerial positions within manufacturing organisations
•  1976 – 1982: University of Cambridge, Ph.D.
•  1976 – 1978: University of Oslo. NERC/NATO Studentship
•  1973 – 1976: University of Cambridge, BA Natural Sciences

Research interests

• Collections curation
• Collections digitisation (HR imaging, photogrammetry, 3d models)
• Ediacaran biota
• Ordovician and Silurian graptolites
• Palaeontological & Collections databases

Published outputs

Key papers

Howe, M P A, Evans, M, Carney, J, and Wilby, P R. 2012. New perspectives on the globally important Ediacaran fossil discoveries in Charnwood Forest, UK: Harley’s 1848 prequel to Ford (1958). Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 59, 137-144

Howe, M P A. 1983. Measurement of thecal spacing in graptolites. Geological Magazine, 120 635-638

Howe, M P A. 1999. The Silurian fauna (graptolite and nautiloid) of the Niarbyl Formation, Isle of Man Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 160, 177-187,

Howe, M P A. 2011. GrapEl : a simple spreadsheet application for managing and disseminating graptolite biozonal range chart data. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 58 (4). 247-252.

Worsley, D, Baarli, B G, Howe, M P A, Hjaltason, F, and Alm, D. 2011. New data on the Bruflat Formation and the Llandovery/Wenlock transition in the Oslo region, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, 91, 101-120.

Zalasiewicz, J A, Page, A, Rickards, R B, Williams, M, Wilby, P R, Howe, M P A, and Snelling, A M. 2013. Polymorphic organization in a planktonic graptoloid (Hemichordata: Pterobranchia) colony of Late Ordovician age. Geological Magazine. 150, 143-152

Wilby, P R,Carney, J N, and Howe, M P A. 2011. A rich Ediacaran assemblage from eastern Avalonia : evidence of early widespread diversity in the deep ocean. Geology , 39 (7). 655-658.

Skills

• Collections conservation
• Collections curation
• Collections database design
• Optical and laser imaging, including anaglyphs
• Scientific management
• Taxonomy

Accreditations

• MCMI – Member, Chartered Management Institute

Professional association

• Fellow of the Geological Society of London
• Member of the American Geophysical Union
• Member of the Chartered Institute of Management
• Member of the Geological Curators Group
• Member of the Natural Sciences Collections Association
• Member of the Palaeontographical Society
• Member of the Palaeontological Association