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?
Podcasting since 2020 • 38 episodes
Polar Podcasts
Latest Episodes
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 ...
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Episode 31
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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 Gr...
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Episode 30
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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 ...
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Episode 29
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28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east Greenland
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...
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Episode 28
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27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical map
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 c...
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Episode 27
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