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Chris Barnes
ProfessorSchool of Earth & Ocean Sciences University of Victoria P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 room: TEF 120b phone: 250-721-8847 fax: 250-472-4100 email: crbarnes@uvic.ca |
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Education Ph.D., University of Ottawa, 1964 B.Sc. Birmingham, 1961 Recognition Past-President's Medal, Geological Association of Canada, 1977 G.A.C. National Lecturer, 1978 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1982 Bancroft Award, Royal Society of Canada, 1982 J. Willis Ambrose Medal, Geological Association of Canada, 1991 Order of Canada, appointed Member, 1996 Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002 Member of National Academy of Sciences, Cordoba, Argentina, 2003 Major Research Interests Earth sciences; Paleozoic-Triassic paleontology, stratigraphy, paleoecology; biological and chemical events in ancient oceans; conodont paleobiology; Mesozoic-Cenozoic offshore basins, BC;cabled ocean observatories. Research on the Early Paleozoic The research program is concerned with understanding the nature of the Early Paleozoic world and the paleobiological events. The principal tools used are conodont micropaleontology, stratigraphy, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology and some geochemistry. Detailed sequential studies of conodont taxonomy, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, paleobiogeography and some isotope geochemistry (Sr, Nd) are undertaken for broad regions to give virtually worldwide coverage. Currently, active projects include work in the Appalachians, Cordillera, China, Argentina, Australia, and Europe. Funding has been mainly from NSERC, LITHOPROBE, and B.C. Geological Survey along with other indirect field logistic support especially from the Geological Survey of Canada and the BC Geological Survey. I have published over135 peer reviewed papers and over 200 conference abstracts. Offshore Sedimentary Basins A new research program was initiated in 2000, to investigate the geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Mesozoic-Cenozoic offshore sedimentary basins of British Columbia, specifically the stratigraphy, foraminiferal and ichthyolith biostratigraphy, and regional thermal maturation patterns. This has been part of a Major Collaborative Research Initiative called Coasts Under Stress and funded by SSHRC/NSERC. Cabled ocean observatories As Project Director (2002-) of the $62.4 million NEPTUNE Canada project, most of my academic time is now spent in the installation of the NEPTUNE Canada facility, which is the northern part of a $250 million facility to deploy 3300km of powered electro-optic cables on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. This will revolutionize the ocean sciences and provide real-time data over a 30-year period (www.neptunecanada.ca; www.neptune.washington.edu). Recent Service and Professional Activities International International Ocean Drilling Program International Commission on Stratigraphy (IUGS) Royal Society of Canada Geological Association of Canada Canadian Geoscience Council Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Council of Chairmen of Canadian Earth Science Departments Coasts Under Stress research program Science Council of B.C. Pacific Subcommittee on Oceanography Pacific Marine Technology Centre Society For the complete list please click here. Requires Adobe Acrobat™ Recent Publications pre-1998 - 1998-99 - 2000-02 - 2003 - 2004 - in press & submitted Submitted and in press - back to top Johns, M.J., Barnes, C.R., and Narayan, Y.R. Submitted. Tofino Basin. In Ch. 6 Non-Renewable Resources. In Ommer R. et al. (Eds.) Coasts under stress. McGill-Queens University Press. Barnes, C.R., Denis, R.H., Hammond, L.F., Johns, M.J. and Kealey,G.S. Submitted. Knowledge movement in response to coastal BC oil and gas development: past, present and future. B.Neis and J. Lutz (Eds.) Knowledge Moves, McGill-Queen's University Press. Johns, M.J., Barnes, C.R., Narayan, Y.R., and Trotter, J. A. Submitted. New interpretation of the Crescent Terrane and geological evolution of the Tofino Basin, British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. Zhang, S., Barnes, C.R. and Jowett, D.M.S. Submitted. The paradox of the global standard Early Silurian sea level curve: evidence from conodont community analysis from both Canadian Arctic and Appalachian margins. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology. Johns, M.J., Barnes, C.R. and Narayan, Y.R. Submitted. Biostratigraphic interpretation of Mesozoic and Cenozoic ichthyolith assemblages from the Tofino Basin, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Johns, M. J. and Barnes, C. R. Submitted. Facies and ichthyolith assemblages in transgression/regression sequences of the Baldonnel and Pardonet formations at Pink Mountain, Trutch map-area (94G), northeastern British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology. Albanesi, G.L, Esteban, S.B., Ortega, G., Hünicken, M.A., and Barnes, C.R. In press. Bioestratigrafía y ambientes sedimentarios de las formaciones Volcancito y Bordo Atravesado (Cámbrico Superior - Ordovícico Inferior), Sistema de Famatina, Provincia de La Rioja, Argentina. In: The geology of La Rioja Province. Eds. J. Dahlquist, C. Rapela, E. Baldo. Asociacion Geologica Argentina, Series D: Publicacion Especial 8. Narayan, Y.R., Barnes, C.R., and Johns, M.J. In press. Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Cenozoic foraminifers from Shell Canada wells, Tofino Basin, offshore Vancouver Island, B.C. Micropaleontology. Zhang, S., Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R. In press. Evolution of the Early Paleozoic Cordilleran margin of Laurentia: tectonic and eustatic events interpreted from sequence stratigraphy and conodont community patterns. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Kuhn, T.S. and Barnes, C.R. In press. Early Late Ordovician conodonts from the Mithaka Formation, Georgina Basin, central Australia. Special Volume of the Geologica Acta (Barcelona, Spain; from International Ordovician System Symposium). Johns, M.J., Barnes, C.R. and Narayan, Y.R. In press. Catalogue of Cenozoic ichthyoliths from the Tofino Basin and western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeontologia Electronica. Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R. In press. Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian stratigraphy of a Macdonald Platform-Kechika Trough-Cassiar Terrane transect, Ware, Tuchodi Lakes, Kechika and Cry Lake map-areas (94F, K. L. 104P), northeastern British Columbia. In: Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin. Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R. In press. Lower Ordovician to Middle Devonian stratigraphy, Macdonald Platform-Ospika Embayment transect, Halfway River, Ware and Trutch map-areas (94B, F. G), northeastern British Columbia. In: Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin. 2004 Papers - back to topZhang, S. and Barnes, C.R. 2004. Arenigian (Early Ordovician) sea level history and the response of conodont communities, western Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 41, 843-865. Zhang, S. and Barnes, C.R. 2004. Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician conodont communities from platform and slope facies, western Newfoundland: a statistical approach. In: The palynology and micropaleontology of boundaries, A.B. Beaudoin and M.J. Head (Eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 230, 47-72. Zhang, S. and Barnes, C.R. 2004. Conodont bio-events, cladistics and response to glacio-eustasy, Ordovician-Silurian boundary through Llandovery, Anticosti Basin, Québec. In: The palynology and micropaleontology of boundaries, A.B. Beaudoin and M.J. Head (Eds.), Geological Society, London, Special Publications 230, 73-104. Zhang, J. and Barnes, C. R. 2004. Late Ordovician conodonts from the Stokes Siltstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia. In: Second Australian Conodont Symposium, Eds: R.Mawson and J.A.Talent, Courier Forschungsinstitut Senkenberg, Bd. 245, p. 1-38 (2003). Barnes, C.R. 2004. Ordovician oceans and climate. p. 72-76 In: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. B.E. Webby, F. Paris, M.L. Droser, and I.G. Percival (eds.), Columbia University Press, New York, 484p. Barnes, C.R. 2004. Was there an Ordovician superplume event? p. 77-80. In: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. B.D. Webby, F. Paris, M.L. Droser, and I.G. Percival (eds.), Columbia University Press, New York, 484p. 2003 Papers - back to topPyle, L. J. and Barnes C.R. 2003. Lower Paleozoic stratigraphic and biostratigraphic correlations in the Canadian Cordillera: implications for the tectonic evolution of the Laurentian margin. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 40, p. 1739-1753. Pyle, L.J., Barnes, C.R. and Ji, Z. 2003. Conodont fauna of the Outram, Skoki and Owen Creek formations (Lower to Middle Ordovician), Wilcox Pass, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, v. 77, p. 958-976. Barnes, C.R., Zhang, S. and Pyle, L.J. 2003. Interpreting conodont communities, tectonics, and eustasy of the Ordovician-Early Silurian Laurentian margins. In: Albanesi, G.L., Beresi, M.S., and Peralta, S.H. (eds), Ordovician from the Andes. Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on the Ordovician System, Instituto Superior de Correlacion Geologica (INSUGEO), Serie Correlacion Geologica 17, p. 497-500. Pyle, L.J., Orchard, M.J., Barnes, C.R. and Landry, M.L. 2003. Biostratigraphy and conodont fauna from the Lower-Middle Devonian Deserters Formation (new), Road River Group, northeastern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 40, p. 99-113. Pyle, L.J. and Barnes, C.R. 2003. Conodonts from a platform-to-basin transect, Lower Ordovician to Lower Silurian, Northeastern British Columbia. Journal of Paleontology, v. 77, p. 146-171. 2000-02 Papers - back to topZhang, S., Barnes, C.R. and Pohler, S.M.L. 2002. Relationships between lithofacies belts and conodont faunas, Gun River Formation (Lower Silurian), Anticosti Island, Quebec: a statistical approach. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39, p. 1767-1782. Barnes, C.R. 2002. Understanding changes in the Earth System: challenges for the Earth Sciences and resource-based economies and communities. First International Conference on Cultural Heritage. Cordoba, Argentina. Proceedings CD, p. 183-201. Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R. 2002. Eustatic sea level curve for the Ashgillian-Llandovery derived from conodont community analysis, Anticosti Island, Québec. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 180, p. 5-32. Zhang, S., and Barnes, C. R. 2002. Paleoecology of Llandovery conodonts, Anticosti Island, Quebec. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology , v. 180, p. 33-55. Zhang, S and Barnes, C. R. 2002. New Llandovery conodont biozonation and pectiniform-ramiform conodonts from the Becscie, Merrimack and Gun River formations, Anticosti Island, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology v. 76, suppl. to No. 2, Paleontological Society, Memoir 57, 46 p. Wright, C.A., Barnes, C.R. and Jacobsen, S.B. 2002. The neodymium isotopic composition of Ordovician conodonts as a seawater proxy: Testing paleogeography. G3 Electronic Journal of Amer. Geophysical Union. Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems, 3(2), 10.1029/2001GC000195 Pyle. L. J and Barnes, C. R. 2002. Taxonomy, evolution and biostratigraphy of conodonts from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian), northeastern British Columbia. National Research Council of Canada, Monograph, Earth Sciences Series, 224 p. Pyle, L. J and Barnes, C. R. 2001. Conodonts from the Kechika Formation and Road River Group (Lower to Upper Ordovician) of the Cassiar Terrane, northern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 38, p. 1387-1401. Pyle L. J. and Barnes, C. R. 2001. Ordovician-Silurian stratigraphic framework along a Macdonald Platform to Ospika Embayment transect, northeastern British Columbia. Bull. Can. Petroleum Geology, v. 49, p. 513-535. Albanesi, G., and Barnes, C.R. 2000. Subspeciation within a punctuated equilibrium evolutionary event: phylogenetic history of the Lower-Middle Ordovician Paroistodus originalis-P. horridus complex (Conodonta). Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, p. 492-502. Zhang, S. and Barnes, C. R. 2000. Anticostiodus, a new multielement conodont genus from the Lower Silurian, Anticosti Island, Quebec. Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, p. 662-669. Pyle, L. J., and Barnes, C. R.. 2000. Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian stratigraphic framework of platform to basin facies, northern British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology, v.48, p.123-149. Johnston, D.I. and Barnes, C. R. 2000. Early and Middle Ordovician (Arenig) conodonts from St. Pauls Inlet and Martin Point, Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada. 2: Sytematic Paleontology. Geologica et Palaeontologica, v. 34, p. 11-87. 1998-99 Papers - back to topBarnes, C.R. and Zhang, S. 1999. Patterns of conodont extinction and recovery across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary interval. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, v. 43, p. 211-212. Williams, H.S., Nowlan, G.S., Barnes, C.R.and Batten, R.R.R. 1999. The Ledge section at Cow Head, western Newfoundland: new data and discussion of the graptolite, conodont, and chitinozoan assemblages. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, v. 43, p. 65-67. Poussart, P.R., Weaver, A.J. and Barnes, C.R., 1999. Late Ordovician glaciation and high atmospheric CO2: addressing an apparent paradox via a coupled model approach. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, v. 43, p. 167-169. Albanesi, G.L., Ortega, G., Barnes, C.R. and Hunicken, M.A. 1999. Conodont-graptolite biostratigraphy of the Gualcamayo Formation (Middle Ordovican) in the Gualcamayo-Guandacol rivers area, Argentina Precordillera. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, v. 43, p. 45-48. Albanesi , G. L., Esterban, S. B. and Barnes, C. R., 1999. Conodontes del intervalo del limite Cambrico-Ordovicico en la Formacion Volcancito Sistema de Famatina, Argentina. Temas Geologico-Mineros ITGC 26 (2),p. 521-526. Poussart, P. F., Weaver, A. J. and Barnes, C. R. 1999. Late Ordovician glaciation under high atmospheric CO2: a coupled model analysis. Paleoceanography, v. 14, p. 542-558. Barnes, C.R. 1999. Paleoceanography and paleoclimatology: an Earth System perspective. In Veizer, J., (ed.) Earth System Evolution: Geochemical perspective. Special issue of Chemical Geology, v. 161, p. 17-35. Johnston, D.I. and Barnes, C.R. 1999. Early and Middle Ordovician (Arenig) conodonts from St. Pauls Inlet and Martin Point, Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada. 1: Biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Geologica et Palaeontologica, v. 33, p. 21-70. Zhen, Y-Y, Webby, B.D., and Barnes, C.R., 1999 Upper Ordovician conodonts from the Bowan Park Group, New South Wales, Australia. Geobios, v. 32, p. 73-104. Qing, H., Barnes, C.R., Buhl, D., and Veizer, J., 1998. The Sr isotopic composition of Ordovician and silurian brachiopods and conodonts: relationships to geological events and implications for coeval seawater. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta v. 62, p. 1721-1733. Albanesi, G.L., Hunicken, M.A., and Barnes, C.R., 1998. Bioestratigrafia de conodontes de las secuencias ordovicicas del cerro Potrerillo, Precordillera Central de San Juan, R. Argentina. Actas de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Cordoba, p. 7-72. For a list of pre-1998 references please click here. Requires Adobe Acrobat™ back to the top |
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