Polar Podcasts

About 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?

Publisher

Julie Hollis

Category

science · science · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2020

Latest episode

26 Jan 2021

Latest episodes

38 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Jan 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.

2. 

   19 Jan 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.

3. 

   12 Jan 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.

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