Dr Dave Wray
David S Wray BSc PhD FGS FRSC
Director of Research and Enterprise (Enterprise)
Reader in Applied Analytical Chemistry
Room: Grenville 221
Email: wd01@gre.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 208 331 9833
Fax: +44(0) 208 331 9805
Profile
Dr Wray attained a BSc (Hons) Geology degree at the University of Sheffield before moving to the City of London Polytechnic to undertake a PhD examining the sedimentology and geochemistry of thin clay-rich beds in Chalk sequences of north-west Europe under the supervision of Dr Andy Gale and Prof. Jake Hancock. After the successful defence of his thesis he was appointed as a Lecturer in Applied Geochemistry at Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich). He has subsequently become a Reader in Applied Analytical Chemistry.
During his time at Greenwich his research interests have diversified and now encompass topics such as modern environmental pollution, analytical chemistry, forensic science and the application of chemostratigraphy to the solving of correlation problems in petroleum reservoirs. Associated with the latter activity he also developed and manages an analytical testing laboratory which is accredited to ISO 17025.
Course Participation
| CHEM1039 | Analytical Techniques |
| ENVI1040 | Science and the Environment |
| ENVI1041 | Environmental Monitoring and Analysis |
| GEOG1020 | Issues in Geography 2 |
| GEOL1019 | Volcanic Processes and Environmental Hazards |
Examples of recent publications
Invited book chapters:
Wray, D. S. 2005. ICP-MS applications: Geological Analysis. In: (Nelms, S.; ed.) ICP mass spectrometry handbook. Blackwell Publishing. 432-450.
Refereed journal publications:
Gale, A.S., Hancock, J.M., Kennedy, W.J., Petrizzo, M. R., Lees, J. A., Walaszczyk, I. & Wray, D.S. 2008. An integrated study (geochemistry, stable oxygen and carbon isotopes, nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, inoceramid bivalves, ammonites and crinoids) of the Waxahachie Dam Spillway section, north Texas: a possible stratotype for the base of the Campanian Stage. Cretaceous Research 29, 131-167.
Wray, D. S. & Gale, A. S. 2006. The palaeoenvironment and stratigraphy of Late Cretaceous Chalks. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 117, 145-162.
Pye, K., Blott, S. J. & Wray, D. S. 2006. Elemental analysis of soil samples for forensic purposes by Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry – precision considerations. Forensic Science International 160, 178-192.
Ratcliffe, K. T., Martin. J., Pearce, T. J., Hughes, A. D., Lawton, D. E., Wray, D. S. and Bessa, F. 2006. A regional chemostratigraphically-defined correlation framework for the late Triassic TAG-I in Blocks 402 and 405a, Algeria. Petroleum Geoscience 12, 3-12.
Huggett, J. M., Gale, A. S. and Wray, D. S. 2005. Diagenetic clinoptilolite and cristobalite from the early Eocene Wittering Formation, Isle of Wight, UK. Journal of Sedimentary Research 75, 583-593.
Pearce, T.J, Wray, D.S., Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, D.K. and Moscariello, A., 2005. Chemostratigraphy of the Upper Carboniferous Schooner Formation, southern North Sea. In: Collinson, J. D., Evans, D. J., Holliday, D. W. & Jones, N. S.(eds), Carboniferous hydrocarbon geology, the southern North Sea and surrounding onshore areas, Yorkshire Geological Society Occasional Publication 7; 147-164.
Ratcliffe, K.T., Wright, A.M., Hallsworth, C., Morton, A., Zaitlin, B.A., Potocki, D. & Wray, D.S. 2004. An example of alternative correlation techniques in a low-accommodation setting, nonmarine hydrocarbon system: The (Lower Cretaceous) Mannville Basal Quartz succession of southern Alberta. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 88, 1419-1432.
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