AIRTO member, BGS, is delighted to announce several new appointments to the BGS Science Advisory Committee (SAC), the body that advises on the development and delivery of BGS public-good science.
The following individuals will serve three-year terms as part of the SAC:
- Ruth Allington, engineering geologist in independent practice, specialising in the design of quarries and mines, and immediate past president of The Geological Society
- Prof Neil Hyatt, chief scientific advisor to Nuclear Waste Services and Aegis Professor of deep time at the University of Bristol
- Prof Jennifer McKinley, professor of geology and mathematical geoscience, Queen’s University Belfast
(Left) Ruth Allington, engineering geologist in independent practice, and former president of The Geological Society, and (right) Prof Jennifer McKinley, professor of geology and mathematical geoscience, Queen’s University Belfast
The SAC will continue to advise BGS on how best to focus on the four priority science areas identified in the BGS Strategy 2023 to 2028, ‘Understanding our Earth’:
- maps and models for the 21st century
- a more secure energy transition
- improved water security
- living with geological hazards
