Abstract

The modern Geological Survey

Highlights

  • Sarah Day talks to British Geological Survey Director Karen Hanghøj about geoscience, outreach and why we need experts more than ever

  • Karen Hanghøj took up her post as Director of the British Geological Survey in October 2019, having previously headed up the Department of Economic

  • ‘The very first year I did my Masters thesis in east Greenland, we were working in a very remote mountainous area, and there was a Canadian exploration company operating in the area, drilling for gold and platinum

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Summary

INTERVIEW GEOSCIENTIST

W hen I was a student at the University of Copenhagen, we had various clubs – sedimentology, petrology, palaeontology and so on. You’d notice that, for example, the people studying petrology wouldn’t go to a talk about sedimentology because they thought it wasn’t relevant to them. We’ve closed in on ourselves a little bit. Karen Hanghøj took up her post as Director of the British Geological Survey in October 2019, having previously headed up the Department of Economic

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