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The Life Scientific: Chris Jackson on sustainable geology

Chris Jackson on sustainable geology

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Chris Jackson on sustainable geology

Geologist Chris Jackson on the earth's past, deep salt and abseiling into a volcano.

Geologist Chris Jackson talks to Jim al-Khalili about global warming, abseiling into a volcano and being the first black RI Christmas lecturer

Chris Jackson is the kind of scientist who just loves to get out into the landscape he loves. He’s often introduced as ‘geologist and adventurer’. For the past five years he’s been Professor of Basin Analysis in the Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering at Imperial College London and he’s now about to move back to the University of Manchester, where he studied as a student, to become Professor of Sustainable Geoscience.

As a child growing up in Derby, Chris learned to love the outdoors on family trips to the Peak District. Recently, you may have seen him abseiling into a crater of an active volcano in the Democratic Republic of Congo for a BBC TV series. He’s also been telling us about the link between our planet’s geology and climate change as part of the recent Royal Institution Christmas lectures. 

Chris talks to Jim al-Khalili about working in the oil and gas exploration industry at the start of his career, searching for massive deposits of salt deep inside the earth and his experience of being a black geologist.

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