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British Institute for Geological Conservation Committee: Prof. B.A. Thomas Professor Barry A. Thomas FLS My academic career started with a degree in Botany at the University of Sheffield, followed by postgraduate research on Carboniferous arborescent lycophytes (Lepidodendron etc) at Reading University. Following two years as the Lord Adams Fellow in the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne I took up a lecturing post at the University of London Goldsmiths' College in 1968. After becoming Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty, I moved to Cardiff in 1985 to become Keeper of the Botany Department at the National Museum of Wales. In 1996 I retired early from the Museum and moved to Lampeter and then finally to Aberystwyth. I have been a member of the BIGC since it started and Treasurer since 1996. I have published 22 books and over 100 scientific papers, dealing with palaeobotany, pteridophytes, Upper Carboniferous stratigraphy and geoconservation. Contact: bat@aber.ac.uk Postal address: Institute of Rural Sciences University of Wales Aberystwyth Aberystwyth Ceredigion SY23 3AL Relevant Publications Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. 1994. Plant fossils of the British Coal Measures. Palaeontological Association, Field Guides to Fossils No. 6, 222 pp. Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. 1994. Palaeozoic palaeobotany of Great Britain. Chapman and Hall, London, Geological Conservation Review Series No. 9, xii + 295 pp. Cleal, C.J. & Thomas, B.A. 1996. British Upper Carboniferous stratigraphy. Chapman and Hall, London, Geological Conservation Review Series No.11, xiii + 339 pp. Cleal, C. J. & Thomas, B. A. 1999. European frameworks for the selection of Palaeozoic palaeobotany Geosites. Geologica Balcanica, 28, 59-66. Cleal, C.J., Thomas, B.A., Batten, D.J. & Collinson, M.E. 2001. Mesozoic and Tertiary palaeobotany of Great Britain. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, Geological Conservation Review Series No.22, xviii + 335 pp. Cleal, C. J., Thomas, B. A., Bevins, R. E. & Wimbledon, W. P. 1999. GEOSITES - an international geoconservation initiative. Geology Today, 15, 64-68 Evans, B., C.J. Cleal, & B.A. Thomas, B.A. 2000. Exposures of the Westphalian Series in the upper Neath and Swansea Valleys, South Wales - a geoconservation project. Carboniferous Newsletter 18, 23-25 Thomas, B.A. 2005. The palaeobotanical beginnings of geological conservation: with case studies from the USA, Banada and Great Britain. In Bowden, A.J., Burek, C.V. & Wilding, R. (eds) History of Palaeobotany: Selected Essays. Geological society, London, Special Publications 241, 95-110.