Dr Lil Stevens
Collections Task Force Manager
Division: ES Collections
Summary
Originally trained as a palaeobotanist, I am now the Collections Task Force Manager for the Earth Sciences Department. In this role I facilitate collections projects, such as large acquisitions, digitisation, collections enhancement, audits and surveys, by providing project management and planning support. The team, together with all of the Earth Sciences collections staff, aims to draw together expertise, workflows and technical solutions to help us manage our projects and our specimens more efficiently so that we can focus on enhancing our collections.
Qualifications
- PhD, Birmingham University, United Kingdom, 2005 - 2009
- BSc Hons., University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 1997 - 2001
Degrees
Employment history
- Senior Curator, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2014 - ongoing
- Curator, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2014
- Indian and Indo-Pacific Ocean Corals Project Officer, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2011
- Research Assistant - Palaeozoic of China, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2011 - 2014
- Curator of Palaeobotany (absence cover), Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2011
- Project Worker - Lower Devonian Plants, Natural History Museum, Earth Sciences, United Kingdom, 2009 - 2010
Academic
Publications
Brewer P, Stevens L, Bernard E, Chapman S, Steel L, Smith D, Clery M (null) eMesozoic: digitising historical palaeontological collections. Lyell Meeting 2016 - Palaeoinformatics - The Geological Society, 93 3 - 9 3 3
Bateman RM, Stevens LG, Hilton J (null) Stratigraphy, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology of the Loch Humphrey Burn lagerstätte and other Mississippian palaeobotanical localities of the Kilpatrick Hills, southwest Scotland. PeerJ, 4 : e1700 - e1700. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1700
Womack T, Slater BJ, Stevens LG, Anderson LI, Hilton J (2012) First cladoceran fossils from the Carboniferous: Palaeoenvironmental and evolutionary implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 344-345 : 39 - 48. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.05.012
Stevens LG, Hilton J, Bond DPG, Glasspool IJ, Jardine PE (2011) Radiation and extinction patterns in Permian floras from North China as indicators for environmental and climate change. Journal of the Geological Society, 168 (2) : 607 - 619. doi: 10.1144/0016-76492010-042
Bond DPG, Hilton J, Wignall PB, Ali JR, Stevens LG, Sun Y, Lai X (2010) The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans. Earth-Science Reviews, 102 (1-2) : 100 - 116. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2010.07.004
Stevens LG, Hilton J, Rees AR, Rothwell GW, Bateman RM (2010) Systematics, Phylogenetics, and Reproductive Biology ofFlemingites arcuatussp. nov., an Exceptionally Preserved and Partially Reconstructed Carboniferous Arborescent Lycopsid. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 171 (7) : 783 - 808. doi: 10.1086/655028
Stevens LG, Hilton J (2009) Ontogeny and ecology of the filicalean fernOligocarpia gothanii(Gleicheniaceae) from the Middle Permian of China. American Journal of Botany, 96 (2) : 475 - 486. doi: 10.3732/ajb.0800221
Wang S, Hilton J, Liang M, Stevens L (2006) Permineralized Seed Plants from the Late Permian of Southern China: A New Species of Cardiocarpus. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 167 (6) : 1247 - 1257. doi: 10.1086/507560
HILTON J, SHI-JUN W, GALTIER J, GLASSPOOL IAN, STEVENS LIL (2004) An Upper Permian permineralized plant assemblage in volcaniclastic tuff from the Xuanwei Formation, Guizhou Province, southern China, and its palaeofloristic significance. Geological Magazine, 141 (6) : 661 - 674. doi: 10.1017/s0016756804009847
Invited and keynote speaker
eMesozoic: British Fossils in the Digital Age, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: Salt Lake City, 27/10/2016.
eMesozoic: an alternative approach to digitising palaeontological collections, SPNHC 2016: 22/6/2016.