Malcolm Hodgskiss

Graduate student

Currently: Postdoctoral scholar, University of Cambridge

I’m interested in the apparent environmental stability of the late Paleoproterozoic and Mesoproterozoic. Despite recording the growth and break-up of Nuna, the probable first appearance of eukaryotes, and the final major pulse of BIF deposition, this relatively poorly studied interval has been termed the “boring billion”. Through a combination of fieldwork and geochemistry, I plan to investigate how “boring” this time actually was.