Polar Podcasts
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological maps
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West Greenland
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about facing severe ...
29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shoulders
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear more from Kent Brooks, emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about the chance discovery of an unusual roc...
28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, Emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about some of his ex...
27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Agnete Steenfelt, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about developing the...
26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East Greenland
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about a close encount...
25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast Greenland
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, about his expeditions to Northeast and North Greenl...
24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocks
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt Intrusion
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist, about his first job working for the Geological Survey of Denmark and Gr...
22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black Angel
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist from the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about his time wor...
21: Niels Henriksen: Reaching remote western North Greenland – mapping the Thule region
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about geological mapp...
20: Allen Nutman: “What if the boundary is folded?” – figuring out the structure of Earth’s ancient crust
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Allen Nutman, Professor of Geology at the University of Wollongong in Australia, about how his mapping work togethe...
19: Kent Brooks: “Nanoq! Nanoq!” Close encounters with polar bears in East Greenland
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear more from Kent Brooks, emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about his encounters with polar bears while ...
18: Agnete Steenfelt – The beginnings of systematic geochemical exploration of Greenland
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Agnete Steenfelt, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about introducing a ...
17: Allen Nutman: “Paired for life” – the beginning of a career mapping the oldest rocks in the world
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Allen Nutman, Professor of Geology at the University of Wollongong in Australia, about his early years working as a field...
16: Kent Brooks: Discovering gold in the Skaergaard intrusion
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen. After a sabbatical working in Papua New Gui...
15: Agnete Steenfelt – Exploring for uranium in East Greenland in the 1970s
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Agnete Steenfelt, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about how she started out...
14: Bjørn Thomassen – One Man Expedition in East Greenland
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about his one man expediti...
13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about a very close call while working for a mine...
12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North Greenland
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about geological mapp...
11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum deposit
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, and Bjørn Thomassen, emeritus senior scientist ...
10: Niels Henriksen: Mapping the Caledonian Fold Belt – the Alps of East Greenland
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about his years spent...
09: Kent Brooks: Earliest drilling of the remarkable Skaergaard layered intrusion
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Kent Brooks – Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen – about the Skaergaard Intrusion, which...
08: Brian Upton: Beginnings of understanding plate tectonics, “a hell of an exciting time!”
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Brian Upton, Professor of geology at the University of Edinburgh, about his early years as a researcher when the th...
07: Niels Henriksen: Lifting the ‘iron curtain’ on geological mapping in Northeast Greenland
18 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Niels Henriksen, emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about the late 1960s,...
06: Kent Brooks – The Plane Crash
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about a chance discovery while on a geological e...
05: Brian Upton: Mapping the unusual alkaline rocks of the Gardar Province
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear more from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, about working on the unusual alkaline ig...
04: Bjørn Thomassen: ‘Taken in’ – the beginnings that led to 42 summers exploring Greenland
11 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Bjørn Thomassen, Emeritus senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, about what drew him to Gre...
03: Kent Brooks: The kindling of a 50-year career studying East Greenland
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor from the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about how his fifty year career studying the ge...
02: Brian Upton: “Ilimaussaq is magic” – beginnings of a lifelong passion for alkaline rocks
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we hear from Brian Upton, Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Edinburgh, about starting out in South Greenland with th...
01: Niels Henriksen – The beginnings of a more than half-century career mapping Greenland
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we hear from Niels Henriksen, known to many as Oscar, Emeritus senior scientist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, s...
Welcome to Polar Podcasts
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Allen Nutman
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Agnete Steenfelt
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Bjørn Thomassen
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Kent Brooks
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Brian Upton
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...
Introduction to Neils Henriksen
02 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Polar Podcasts, where you’ll hear stories from geologists who’ve spent their careers, their lives, exploring and studying the remarkabl...