Polar Podcasts

Julie Hollis

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?

38 Episodes

31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological maps
1/26/2021
15:05
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.
30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West Greenland
1/19/2021
17:42
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.
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29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders
1/12/2021
11:12
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.
28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland
1/5/2021
12:48
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.
27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map
12/29/2020
10:54
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.
26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East Greenland
12/22/2020
10:58
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.
25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland
12/15/2020
9:21
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.
24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocks
12/8/2020
25:38
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.
23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion
12/1/2020
18:20
In this episode we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist, about his first job working for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, running a field program to study the niobium- and tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion in South Greenland.
22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black Angel
11/24/2020
24:11
In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about his time working as a geologist and later a mine inspector at the Black Angel lead zinc mine in west Greenland.

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Polar Podcasts

Julie Hollis

38 Episodes

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

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

29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders

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

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

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

25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland

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

23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion

22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black Angel