David Bond Research, University of Leeds

Dr David Bond

Nearly falling off, Wase Toilet Section, China 2008

I currently work as a Researcher Development Officer for postgraduate students and research staff in Biological Sciences and Medicine and Health, helping those people develop their transferable and research skills. Until 2010 I was a NERC-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Earth and Environment. My research interests span a range of extinction events and the environmental stresses that trigger them. In July/August 2011 I was in Spitsbergen on a new project investigating both the Middle and end-Permian crises in the bulletproof but very lovely Kapp Starostin Formation. Some pictures have just been added (Oct 11)

My fundamental research investigates the global record of environmental change and mass extinctions in deep time. I have worked on 4 of the "Big 5" extinctions (not the K/T!) and some that arent in that exclusive club (i.e. the Middle Permian). My most recent project linked Middle Permian marine extinctions to contemporaneous large scale volcanism in southern China, thus establishing the first direct link between these two phenomena. As you'll gather, I study other crises in the history of life, such as the Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian), Permo-Triassic, and Late Ordovician mass extinctions. You can see what I've been doing in my publications below.

I'm also a keen gold panner... and this has developed into an applied research interest that links sedimentology to the study of placer gold distributions. I have spent two happy summers in Yukon on Canadian government / Yukon Geological Survey funded projects. I am yet to make my fortune, although did stake a mine out there in 2009. This was subsequently "removed" from my possession, and in June 2011 was up for sale for C$700'000. I'm a bit gutted about that.

I love getting out in the field, teaching, researching and most things to do with geology, including beer.

Click here for my CV Publications and Downloads Click the photo on the right hand side to download each paper, or be directed to the DOI. If you dont have a subscription or are having difficulty accessing these, email and I'll send you a PDF.
31. In prep: Bond, D.P.G., Zaton, M., Wignall, P.B., and Marynowski, L. Evidence for shallow-water anoxic Kellwasser events in the Frasnian-Famennian reefs of Alberta, Canada.
30. In prep: Dustira, A.M., Blomeier, D., Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., Joachimski, M., Buggisch, W., and Hartkopf-Froder, C. The timing of environmental change across the Permian-Triassic boundary in Svalbard: framboidal pyrite as an indicator for the onset of marine euxinia.
29. Hammarlund, E.U., Dahl, T.W., Harper, D.A.T., Bond, D.P.G., Nielsen, A.T., Schovsbo, N.H., Schonlaub, H.P., Bjerrum, C.J., Zalasiewicz, J.A., and Canfield, D.E. (submitted). A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
28. Song, H.-J., Wignall, P.B., Tong, J., Bond, D.P.G., Song, H.-Y., Lai, X.-L., Zhang, K.-X., Wang, H.-M., Chen, Y.-L., Xiong, Y.-L., Tian, L. (in review). Geochemical evidence from bio-apatite for a link between redox history and recovery from the end-Permian extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
27. Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Haas, J., Wang, W., Jiang, H.-S, Lai, X.-L., Altiner, D., Védrine, S., Hips, K., Zajzon, N., and Newton, R.J. (in press). The Capitanian (Middle Permian) mass extinction in western Tethys: a fossil, facies and d13C study from Hungary and Hydra Island (Greece). Palaios.
26. Song, H.-J., Wignall, P.B., Chen, Z.-Q., Tong, J., Bond, D.P.G., Lai, X.-L., Zhao, X.-M., Jiang, H.-S., Yan, C.-B., Niu, Z.-J., Chen, J., Yang, H., and Wang, Y.-B. (2011). Recovery tempo and pattern of marine ecosystems after the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology, 39, 739-742.
25. Stevens, L.G., Hilton, J., Bond, D.P.G., Glasspool, I.J., and Jardine, P.E. (2011). Radiation and extinction patterns in Pennsylvanian-Permian floras from North China as indicators for environmental and climate change. Journal of the Geological Society, 168, 607-619.
24. Racka, M., Marynowski, L., Filipiak, P., Sobstel, M., Pisarzowska, A., and Bond, D.P.G. (2010). Anoxic Annulata Events in the Late Famennian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Southern Poland): geochemical and palaeontological record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 549-575.
23. Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E., Anbar, A.D., Bond, D.P.G., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G.W., Knoll, A.H., Nielsen, A.T., Schovsbo, N.H., and Canfield, D.E. (2010). Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 17911-17915.
22. Bond, D.P.G., Hilton, J., Wignall, P.B., Ali, J.R., Stevens, L.G., Sun, Y.-D., and Lai, X.-L. (2010). The Middle Permian (Capitanian) mass extinction on land and in the oceans. Earth Science Reviews, 102, pp. 100-116.
21. Sun, Y.-D., Lai, X.-L., Wignall, P.B., Widdowson, M., Ali, J.R., Jiang, H.-S., Wang, W., Yan, C.-B., and Bond, D.P.G. (2010). Dating the onset and nature of the Middle Permian Emeishan large igneous province eruptions in SW China using conodont biostratigraphy and its bearing on mantle plume uplift models. Lithos, 119, pp. 20-33.
20. Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., Wang, W., Védrine, S., Jiang, H.-S., Lai, X.-L., Sun, Y.-D., Newton, R.J., Cope, H., and Izon, G. (2010). The mid-Capitanian (middle Permian) mass extinction and carbon isotope record of south China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 292, pp. 282-294.
19. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2010). Pyrite framboid study of marine Permo-Triassic boundary sections: a complex anoxic event and its relationship to contemporaneous mass extinction. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 122 (7/8), pp. 1265-1279.
18. Chapman, R.J., Bond, D.P.G., and Lebarge, W. (2010). Particle size distribution of gold within the Sulphur and Dominion Creek drainages, Klondike District, Yukon, and implications for gold winning and the formation of distal placers containing fine gold. Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, pp. 135-142.
17. Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Kuwahara, K., Kakuwa, Y., Newton, R.J., and Poulton, S.W. (2010). An 80 million year oceanic redox history from Permian to Jurassic pelagic sediments of the Mino-Tamba terrane, SW Japan, and the origin of four mass extinctions. Global and Planetary Change, 71, pp. 109-123.
16. Chapman, R.J., Leake, R.C., Bond, D.P.G., Stedra, V., and Fairgrieve, B. (2009). Chemical and mineralogical signatures of gold formed in oxidizing chloride hydrothermal systems and their significance within populations of placer gold grains collected during reconnaissance. Economic Geology, 104, pp. 563-585.
15. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009) Latitudinal selectivity of foraminifer extinctions during the end-Guadalupian crisis. Paleobiology, 35, pp. 465-482.
14. Wignall, P.B., Vedrine, S., Bond, D.P.G., Wang, W., Lai, X.-L., Ali, J.R., and Jiang, H.-S. (2009). Facies analysis and sea-level change at the Guadalupian-Lopingian Global Stratotype (Laibin, South China), and its bearing on the end-Guadalupian mass extinction. Journal of the Geological Society, 166, pp. 655-666.
13. Wignall, P.B., Sun, Y.-D., Bond, D.P.G., Izon, G., Newton, R.J., Widdowson, M., Vedrine, S., Ali, J.R., Lai, X.-L., Jiang, H.-S., and Cope, H. (2009). Precise coincidence of explosive volcanism, mass extinction and carbon isotope fluctuations in the Middle Permian of China. Science, 324, pp. 1179-1182.
12. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009). Abstract of “The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 273, pp. 265-267.
11. Zaton, M., Marynowski, L., Szczepanik, P., Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2009). Redox conditions during sedimentation of the Middle Jurassic (Upper Bajocian – Bathonian) clays of the Polish Jura (south-central Poland): an integrated approach, Facies, 55, pp. 103-114.
10. Lai, X-L., Wang, W., Wignall, P.B., Bond, D.P.G., Jiang, H-S., Ali, J.R., John, E.H., and Sun, Y-D. (2008). Palaeoenvironmental change during the end-Guadalupian (Permian) mass extinction in Sichuan, China, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 269, pp. 78-93.
9. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2008). The role of sea-level change and marine anoxia in the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 263, pp. 107-118.
8. Raiswell, R., Newton, R., Bottrell, S.H., Coburn, P.M., Briggs, D.E.G., Bond, D.P.G., and Poulton, S.W. (2008). Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization, American Journal of Science, 308, pp.105-129.
7. Wignall, P.B., and Bond, D.P.G. (2008). The end-Triassic and Early Jurassic mass extinction records in the British Isles, Proceedings of the Geologists Association, 119 (1), pp. 73-84.
6. Bond, D.P.G., and Chapman, R.J. (2006). Evaluation of the origins of gold hosted by the conglomerates of the Indian River Formation, Yukon, using a combined sedimentological and mineralogical approach, Yukon Exploration and Geology, 2006, pp.93-104.
5. Bond, D.P.G. (2006) The fate of the homoctenids (Tentaculitoidea) during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction (Late Devonian), Geobiology, 4, pp.167-177.
4. Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2005) Evidence for Late Devonian (Kellwasser) anoxic events in the Great Basin, western United States, In: Morrow, J., Over, J. and Wignall, P.B. (ed), Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic biotic and climatic events: towards an integrated approach, Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy vol. 20, Elsevier, pp.225-261.
3. Bond, D.P.G., Wignall, P.B., and Racki G. (2004) Extent and duration of marine anoxia during the Frasnian-Famennian (Late Devonian) mass extinction in Poland, Germany, Austria and France, Geological Magazine, 141, pp.173-193.
2. Racki, G., Piechota, A., Bond, D.P.G., and Wignall, P.B. (2004) Geochemical and ecological aspects of lower Frasnian pyritic-ammonoid level at Kostomloty (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland), Geological Quarterly, 48, pp.267-282.
1. Bond, D.P.G., and Zaton M. (2003) Gamma-ray spectrometry across the Upper Devonian basin succession at Kowala in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland), Acta Geologica Polonica, 53, pp.93-99.
News stories A few of my papers have featured as news items recently. Click a picture below to be redirected to the story.
Plants set stage for evolutionary drama (Nature News September 2010, based on the Dahl et al. paper)
Major mass extinction older than thought (Planet Earth online August 2010, based on the Bond et al. ESR paper)
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