Polar Podcasts

Julie Hollis
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Polar Podcasts

In Polar Podcasts, you'll hear stories from geologists who've spent their careers - their lives - exploring and studying the remarkable and remote geology of Greenland. Why did they become fascinated with Greenland? What were the problems and the discoveries that drove them? And what was it like working in these remote places, where few people venture - even now?

  1. 26/01/2021

    31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological maps

    In this last episode of Polar Podcasts, we hear more from Allen Nutman, Professor of Geology at the University of Wollongong in Australia, about his lifelong passion for making geological maps, focused particularly on the Nuuk region, where he has spent decades mapping some of the oldest rocks in the world.

    15 min

  2. 19/01/2021

    30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West Greenland

    In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about facing severe storms while following up on gold anomalies on Kiatak – Northumberland Island – in northwest Greenland.

    18 min

  3. 12/01/2021

    29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders

    In this episode we hear more from Kent Brooks, emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about the chance discovery of an unusual rock he picked up in East Greenland that led to years of productive research about the nature of the Earth’s mantle far beneath the Earth’s surface.

    11 min

  4. 05/01/2021

    28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland

    In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, Emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about some of his experiences with wildlife around Flemming Fjord, in central East Greenland, while prospecting for barium, lead and zinc.

    13 min

  5. 29/12/2020

    27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map

    In this episode, we hear more from Agnete Steenfelt, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about developing the Greenland-wide geochemical sampling into a regional geochemical map of the whole island – a culmination of over 30 years work.

    11 min

  6. 22/12/2020

    26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East Greenland

    In this episode we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about a close encounter with a polar bear while on field work in east Greenland.

    11 min

  7. 15/12/2020

    25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland

    In this episode, we hear more from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, about his expeditions to Northeast and North Greenland with the Geological Survey of Greenland, in environments in stark contrast to where he had been working in South Greenland.

    9 min

  8. 08/12/2020

    24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocks

    In this episode, we hear more from Allen Nutman, Professor of Geology at the University of Wollongong in Australia, about his work on dating some of the oldest rocks in the world, in the Isua supracrustal belt, close to the inland ice in the Nuuk region.

    26 min
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In Polar Podcasts, you'll hear stories from geologists who've spent their careers - their lives - exploring and studying the remarkable and remote geology of Greenland. Why did they become fascinated with Greenland? What were the problems and the discoveries that drove them? And what was it like working in these remote places, where few people venture - even now?

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  • Creator
    Julie Hollis
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2023 Polar Podcasts
  • Show Website
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