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...
18 Aug 202015min
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 implicati...
11 Aug 202013min
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 Gre...
11 Aug 202016min
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, wor...
11 Aug 202010min
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 fir...
4 Aug 202018min
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...
4 Aug 202015min
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...
4 Aug 20208min
Welcome to Polar Podcasts
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where 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...
3 Aug 20202min
