Science Advisory Committee

About BGS

The BGS Science Advisory Committee (SAC) was recruited under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the BGS signed with NERC following the creation of the BGS Board.

The composition of the SAC is:

  • Prof Carol Frost (committee chair): Professor Emerita, University of Wyoming
  • Dr Liz Fellman: director of strategy, planning and communications, Science and Technologies Facilities Council
  • Prof Stephen de Mora: independent environmental consultant
  • Prof Christopher Jackson, director of sustainable geoscience, Jacobs
  • Prof David Manning, professor of soil science, Newcastle University
  • Prof Sarah Metcalfe, professor of earth and environmental dynamics, University of Nottingham; interim provost and CEO, University of Nottingham Malaysia
  • Dr Christopher Power, engineering geologist at Mott MacDonald specialising in geotechnical asset management, engineering rock geology and rock mechanics

Tenth Committee Meeting: 5-6 October (159.07 kb pdf)

Ninth Committee Meeting: 2-3 July 2023 (285 kb pdf)

Eighth Committee Meeting: 23 September 2022 (22 kb pdf)

Seventh Committee Meeting: 14 January 2022 (142.54 Kb pdf)

Sixth Committee Meeting: 11 June 2021 (98.40 Kb pdf)

Fifth Committee Meeting: 24 November 2020 (35 Kb pdf)

Fourth Committee meeting: 30 April 2020 (90 Kb pdf)

Third Committee meeting: 12 November 2019 (127 Kb pdf)

Second Committee meeting: 16 April 2019 (118 Kb pdf)

First Committee meeting: 16 November 2018 (113 Kb pdf)

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