Jeremy Giles

Mr Jeremy Giles Manager of the National Geoscience Data Centre and BGS Information Manager

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3220

E-mail Jeremy Giles

Biography

  •  2004 :  Winner of the Aberconway Medal awarded by the Geological Society of London for distinguished work in the advancement of the practice and profession of Geology
  •  2000 – To date :  NGDC Manager and BGS Information Manager
  •  1998 – 2001 :  Programme Manager: BGS Geoscience Integrated Database
  •  1994 – 1997 :  Technical Manager: Nirex Digital Geoscience Database
  •  1988 – 1998 :  BGS IT Project Manager including responsibility for project that developed information systems for the Northern Ireland Geological Survey, Irish Geological Survey, Bolivian Geological Survey, Ecuadorian Geological Survey and the Greek Geological Survey.
  •  1982 – 1988 :  BGS Field Mapping Geologist
  •  1977 – 1982 :  BGS Industrial Minerals Geologist

Boards and committees

  •  2012 –2012 :  Member of a Nuclear Decommissioning Agency programme advisory panel for a project to develop Controlled Vocabularies for a Geosphere Data Management System.
  •  2008 –2009 :  Member of a Nuclear Decommissioning Agency programme advisory panel for a project to develop a technical specification for a Geosphere Data Management System.

Current projects and collaboration

Research interests

  •  Data & Applications for Environmental modelling
  •  GeoInformatics
  •  Managing data related to the development of underground nuclear waste repositories

Skills

  •  An extensive knowledge and practical experience of geoscience information systems
  •  Data and Information Management
  •  Relational databases
  •  The application of GIS to geoscience
  •  Web-based systems

Published outputs

Key papers

Giles, Jeremy R.A.. 2011 Geoscience metadata : no pain, no gain. In: Sinka, A.K., (ed.) Societal challenges and geoinformatics. Geological Society of America, 29-33. (Geological Society of America Special Papers, 482).

Fleming, C.; Marsh, S.H.; Giles, J.R.A., eds. 2010 Elevation models for geoscience. London, UK, Geological Society of London, 148pp. (Geological Society Special Publications, 345).

Giles, J R A; Hughes, A; Kessler, H; Watson, C and Peach, D. 2010. Data and research for environmental applications and models (DREAM): scoping study report. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/10/020. 54pp.

Giles, J R A. 2009. A practitioners guide to managing geoscience information in Digital Mapping Techniques 09, West Virginia, USA, 10-13 May 2009

Culshaw, M.G.; Jackson, I.; Giles, J.R.A.. 2006 The provision of digital spatial data for engineering geologists. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and Environment, 65 (2). 185-194. 10.1007/s10064-005-0034-x

Baker, G.; Giles, J.R.A.. 2005 Accelerated implementation of database systems for a Geosphere Characterisation Programme. British Geological Survey, 28pp. (CR/05/169N) (Unpublished)

Giles, J R A. 2005. The principles of good data management 2nd edition. Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: London

Giles, J R A, Bain, K A. 1995. The nature of data on a geological map in Geological Data Management. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 1995, SP97 pp 33-40

Giles, J.R.A., eds. 1995 Geological Data Management. London, UK, Geological Society of London, 192pp. (Geological Society Special Publications, 97).

See also
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Magazines
  • Hughes, Andrew; Chambers, Jonathan; Giles, Jeremy; Jordan, Colm; Kessler, Holger; Kingdon, Andrew; Marsh, Stuart; Ogilvy, Richard; Peach, Denis. 2010 Looking forward to making predictions. Earthwise, 26. 38-39.
  • Smith, Leilani; Giles, Jeremy. 2010 A world of information. Earthwise, 26. 42-43.