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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?
Episodes
31: Allen Nutman: A lifelong love of making geological mapsJanuary 26, 2021
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30: Bjørn Thomassen: Chasing gold in wild weather, North-West GreenlandJanuary 19, 2021
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29: Kent Brooks: Mantle xenoliths and dislocated shouldersJanuary 12, 2021
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28: Bjørn Thomassen: Encounters with animals while prospecting for lead-zinc in east GreenlandJanuary 05, 2021
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27: Agnete Steenfelt – From geochemical exploration to a Greenland-wide geochemical mapDecember 29, 2020
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26: Bjørn Thomassen – Stalked by a polar bear in East GreenlandDecember 22, 2020
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25: Brian Upton: Working in remote Northeast GreenlandDecember 15, 2020
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24: Allen Nutman – “Faraway places with unpronounceable names” – dating Greenland’s ancient rocksDecember 08, 2020
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23: Bjørn Thomassen: Vertical fieldwork – exploring the niobium-tantalum-enriched Motzfeldt IntrusionDecember 01, 2020
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22: Bjørn Thomassen – Mining the Black AngelNovember 24, 2020
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21: Niels Henriksen: Reaching remote western North Greenland – mapping the Thule regionNovember 17, 2020
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20: Allen Nutman: “What if the boundary is folded?” – figuring out the structure of Earth’s ancient crustNovember 10, 2020
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19: Kent Brooks: “Nanoq! Nanoq!” Close encounters with polar bears in East GreenlandNovember 03, 2020
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18: Agnete Steenfelt – The beginnings of systematic geochemical exploration of GreenlandOctober 27, 2020
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17: Allen Nutman: “Paired for life” – the beginning of a career mapping the oldest rocks in the worldOctober 20, 2020
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16: Kent Brooks: Discovering gold in the Skaergaard intrusionOctober 13, 2020
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15: Agnete Steenfelt – Exploring for uranium in East Greenland in the 1970sOctober 06, 2020
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14: Bjørn Thomassen – One Man Expedition in East GreenlandSeptember 29, 2020
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13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”September 22, 2020
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12: Niels Henriksen – Mapping remote, uninhabited eastern North GreenlandSeptember 15, 2020
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11: Bjørn Thomassen and Kent Brooks: The discovery of the Flammefjeld porphyry molybdenum depositSeptember 08, 2020
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10: Niels Henriksen: Mapping the Caledonian Fold Belt – the Alps of East GreenlandSeptember 01, 2020
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09: Kent Brooks: Earliest drilling of the remarkable Skaergaard layered intrusion August 25, 2020
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08: Brian Upton: Beginnings of understanding plate tectonics, “a hell of an exciting time!” August 18, 2020
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07: Niels Henriksen: Lifting the ‘iron curtain’ on geological mapping in Northeast Greenland August 18, 2020
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