Mr Richard Ellison

Mr Richard Ellison Regional Manager BGS International

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3177

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Biography

  •  2011 :  Head of International Business coordination
  •  2006 –2008 :  Project Director Afghanistan Institutional Strengthening Project
  •  2006 :  Project Director United Arab Emirates Geological Project
  •  2006 –2011 :  Regional Manager for Asia, Middle East and N Anglophone Africa
  •  2002 –2006 :  Project Leader UAE Geological Mapping Project
  •  1999 –2006 :  Manager Urban Geoscience programme
  •  1999 –2006 :  Regional Geologist south west England
  •  1994 –1999 :  Regional Geologist London Basin
  •  1986 –1994 :  Principal mapping geologist Craven Basin, Yorkshire Coalfield
  •  1983 –1986 :  Geologist, ODA Technical Cooperation Project , Peru
  •  1978 –1983 :  Senior Mapping geologist Worcester Basin
  •  1972 –1978 :  Mapping geologist SE England

Research interests

  •  Coal
  •  Palaeogene palaeogeography
  •  Urban geology

Skills

  •  Broad geological and applied geoscience knowledge
  •  Project management

Current projects and collaboration

  •  United Arab Emirates Geological Project - mapping, mineral assessment, integration of airborne geophysics and seismic data, evolution of salt domes and structural synthesis

Published outputs

Key papers

ELLISON, R A and STYLES, M T. 2006. The Geology and Geophysics of the United Arab Emirates. Volume 1: Executive Summary. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey

ELLISON, R A, FORSTER, A, WOODS, M A and KING, C. 2004. The Geology of London. Memoir of the Geological Survey

STYLES, M T, ELLISON, R A, ARKLEY, S L B, CROWLEY, Q, FARRANT, A R, GGOODENOUGH, K M, McKERVEY, J A, PHARAOH, T C, PHILLIPS, E R, SCHOFIELD, D and THOMAS, R J. 2006. The Geology and Geophysics of the United Arab Emirates. Volume 2: Geology. (Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey). 351pp.

BREESCH, L. SWENNEN, R. VINCENT, B. ELLISON, R.A. DEWEVER, B. 2010. Dolomite cementation and recrystallisation of sedimentary breccias along the Musandam Platform margin (United Arab Emirates). Journal of Geochemical Exploration Vol. 106, 34-43

MacKLIN, S, ELLISON, R A, MANNING, J, FARRANT, A and LORENTI, L. 2011. Engineering geological characterisation of the Barzaman Formation, with reference to coastal Dubai, UAE. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, Vol 70