Mr Hugh Barron

Mr Hugh Barron Marketing Sector Manager

Location: Edinburgh

Tel: 0131 6500 258

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Biography

  •  2012 – to date :  Accessing Subsurface Knowledge (ASK) Coordinator
  •  2010 – to date :  Project Leader, Responsive Surveys Scotland
  •  2008 – 2010 :  Deputy to Chief Geologist, Scotland
  •  2008 – 2010 :  Team Leader, Responsive Surveys Scotland
  •  2002 – to date :  Sector Manager Scotland, Business Development
  •  1994 – to date :  Geologist, BGS Edinburgh
  •  1991 – 1994 :  Science Administration, BGS Keyworth
  •  1986 – 1991 :  Stratigraphic Palynologist, BGS Keyworth
  •  1985 – 1986 :  MSc by Research, University of Aberdeen, Palynology
  •  1981 – 1985 :  Geologist, oil service company
  •  1977 – 1981 :  BSc (Hons) University of Aberdeen, Geology

Boards and committees

  •  2011 – to date :  Europe Geology Director, International Appalachian Trail
  •  2011 – to date :  External Examiner, University of Edinburgh MSc in Geographic Information Science
  •  2011 – to date :  International Appalachian Trail Scotland
  •  2008 – to date :  Chair, Association for Geographic Information, Scotland
  •  2007 – 2011 :  Scottish representative on Association for Geographic Information (AGI) Council and Director of AGI Ltd

Current projects and collaboration

  •  Accessing Subsurface Knowledge (ASK) Network development with Glasgow City Council
  •  Business Development Sector Manager, Scotland
  •  Deep geothermal energy potential in Scotland with AECOM for the Scottish Government
  •  Delivery Team, Cairngorms National Park Authority; collaborating with CEH Edinburgh on landscapes and geodiversity
  •  Geological information and advice for infrastructure development
  •  Scottish Geodiversity Charter with Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Geodiversity Forum and the Scottish Government

Skills

  •  3D geological modelling and visualisation
  •  Business development and commercial project management
  •  Lower Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palynology
  •  Responsive geological surveys, GIS applications and digital mapping

Professional association

  •  2005 – to date :  CSci. Chartered Scientist
  •  1997 – to date :  CGeol. Chartered Geologist
  •  1994 – to date :  1994 — Member, Edinburgh Geological Society

Research interests

  •  3D geological modelling, visualisation and applications to regeneration and infrastructure
  •  Citizen science
  •  Geodiversity and geotourism
  •  Silurian and Devonian of Scotland
  •  Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)

Published outputs

Key papers

GORDON, J G, BARRON, H F, HANSOM, J D and THOMAS, M F. 2012. Engaging with geodiversity – why it matters. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association Vol. 123,1–6.

MOLYNEUX, S G, BARRON, H F and SMITH, R A. 2008. Upper Llandovery–Wenlock (Silurian) palynology of the Pentland Hills inliers, Midland Valley of Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 44, 151–168.

BARRON, H F, PHILLIPS, E R and FLOYD, J D. 2004. The Lamington Conglomerate: further evidence for an ophiolitic source for the Ordovician Marchburn Formation, Northern Belt,
Southern Uplands. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40, 7–12.

PHILLIPS, E R, BARRON, H F, SMITH, R A, AND ARKLEY, S L B. 2004. Composition and provenance of the Silurian to Devonian sequences of the Southern Midland Valley. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 40, 23–42.

MCCAFFREY, W D, BARRON, H F, MOLYNEUX, S G, and KNELLER, B C. 1992. Derived microfossils as provenance indicators: implications for Caledonian Terrane Reconstruction. Geological Magazine. Vol. 129, No. 4, 457–464.

BARRON, H F. 1989. Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments of the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to basal Portlandian) of the Helmsdale region, east Sutherland, Scotland. 193–213 in Northwest European Micropalaeontology and Palynology. Batten, D J, and Keen, M (editors). (Chichester: Ellis Horwood.)