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07: Niels Henriksen: Lifting the ‘iron curtain’ on geological mapping in Northeast Greenland

In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about the late 1960s, when the survey embarked on an ambitious and very successful campaign of systematic geological mapping...

Published 08/18/20

06: Kent Brooks – The Plane Crash

In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about a chance discovery while on a geological expedition to east Greenland in 1966, the implications of which followed him over forty years.

Published 08/11/20

05: Brian Upton: Mapping the unusual alkaline rocks of the Gardar Province

In this episode, we hear more from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, about working on the unusual alkaline igneous rocks of the Gardar Province in in South Greenland in the 1950s and later.

Published 08/11/20

04: Bjørn Thomassen: ‘Taken in’ – the beginnings that led to 42 summers exploring Greenland

In this episode we hear from Bjørn Thomassen, Emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about what drew him to Greenland and kept him coming back for 42 summers, working as an economic geologist and mineral prospector.

Published 08/11/20

03: Kent Brooks: The kindling of a 50-year career studying East Greenland

In this episode we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor from the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about how his fifty year career studying the geology of Greenland, was kindled. And about his first – very memorable – field season in east Greenland...

Published 08/04/20

02: Brian Upton: “Ilimaussaq is magic” – beginnings of a lifelong passion for alkaline rocks

In this episode, we hear from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, about starting out in South Greenland with the Geological Survey of Greenland in 1955, and what became a lifelong passion for researching and...

Published 08/04/20

01: Niels Henriksen – The beginnings of a more than half-century career mapping Greenland

In this episode we hear from Niels Henriksen, known to many as Oscar, Emeritus senior scientist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, starting as a student with the Geological Survey of Greenland, only six years after the survey was...

Published 08/04/20

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