Julian started work for UK Business Development in 2008. He is an environmental scientist with an HNC in Applied Chemistry, MSc Integrated Environmental Control from Nottingham Trent University and, recently, MRes in Contaminated Land Management from Nottingham University. He has worked at BGS for over 18 years and his experience in environmental geoscience includes site investigation, development of novel techniques and data interpretation. Julian has managed projects funded by Toyota UK, the Ministry of Defence and the Environment Agency. He is currently Head of UK Business Development and is mainly concerned with the development of markets in environment and health, laboratories, and geoscience technologies.

• Digital data and products
• Northern Ireland

Malcolm Brown graduated from Durham University in geology and joined BGS in 1972. He was initially involved with a wide variety of mineral exploration projects in the UK and Africa and was responsible for the administration of the DTI Mineral Incentive Scheme. For six years he was Operations Manager for the Regional Geochemical Mapping Programme and then moved to the newly formed Business Development Group in 1997. He is mainly concerned with the development of markets for BGS’s digital data and products. He is a member of the Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining and a Chartered Engineer.

• Geology and Landscapes England and Wales
• Environmental geoscience
• Land use planning and development
• Minerals

Jenny joined UKBD in 2003 with a Business Studies degree, and obtained a Marketing Professional postgraduate diploma from Nottingham Trent University in 2005. She has worked in event management, market research, branding and corporate marketing.

Howard Johnson graduated in 1975 and joined the British Geological Survey. After six years with the UK Land Survey, he transferred to the BGS Hydrocarbons Unit in Edinburgh, under contract to the UK Department of Energy. During the late 1980s, he conducted petroleum geoscience assessments in the South Pacific on behalf of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation. Upon his return to BGS, his work has included published studies of North Sea, East Irish Sea and Atlantic margin basins. He currently leads the BGS Continental Margins team and his research interests include the nature and origin of compression within passive margins. He is a Chartered Geologist and Chartered Scientist.

Derek is a marine and petroleum geoscientist and project manager, specialising in petroleum systems and basin analysis of the NE Atlantic margin, particularly within the Faroe-Shetland Basin to the NW of the UK mainland. He has wide experience of working with the oil and gas industry and academia. Current scientific interests in the NE Atlantic margin include Basement terrane correlation, the North Atlantic Igneous Province and the causes and effects of Cenozoic compressional deformation.

• Earth hazards and systems
• Scotland

Hugh was appointed UKBD Sector Manager for Scotland in 2002, working mainly with local authorities, government agencies and the Scottish Government. Since 2008 he has been Team Leader – Responsive Surveys Scotland, and deputy to the Chief Geologist, Scotland. He is a Chartered Geologist, Chartered Scientist, Council Member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) and Chair of AGI Scotland. After graduating from the University of Aberdeen, Hugh worked as a geologist offshore oil industry in Europe and the Middle East. He joined BGS in 1986 as a biostratigrapher following a return to Aberdeen for postgraduate research on Jurassic palynology. He transferred to the Edinburgh office in 1994 where he served as a field geologist in central and southern Scotland, Morocco and the Isle of Man.

David joined the BGS in 1978 after graduating in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University in 1976 followed by an MSc in Engineering Hydrology at Newcastle University in 1978. Until 1997 he worked as a hydrogeologist both in the UK and overseas, specialising in field and laboratory investigation of aquifer physical properties. Since 1997 he has been the Water Sector Business Manager for BGS while continuing to lead hydrogeological studies (for example he is currently managing BGS investigations into groundwater-surface water interaction).

• Energy
• Climate change

Antony joined UKBD in 2009. After graduating from the University of Southampton in 1996 with a first class degree in geology, he was employed as a Mining and Exploration Geologist for a major mining company in South Africa. Antony was awarded an MSc in Mineral Resources from Cardiff University in 1999 and then worked in Hong Kong as a Geotechnical Engineer. Since joining BGS in 2001 he has been involved in many projects including international work in Afghanistan, the UAE and Ghana.

At the start of 2009 Linda joined the UK Business Development team as Marketing Events Manager. Previously, she managed BGS mineral statistics projects (including the annual publications World Mineral Production, European Mineral Statistics, the United Kingdom Minerals Yearbook) and the BGS-hosted MineralsUK website. She obtained her degree in geology and MSc in Industrial Mineralogy from Leicester University.