Dr Richard Hughes
Director of Knowledge Exchange
Location: Keyworth
Tel: 0115 936 3587
E-mail Dr Richard Hughes
Biography
- 2007 –current : Director of Geoscience Information and Knowledge Exchange
- 2007 –current : member of BGS Senior Leadership Team
- 2005 –2007 : Head of Information Delivery, BGS
- 2001 –2005 : International Business Development Manager, BGS
- 1985 –2001 : project manager on applied geoscience projects in UK and overseas
- 1984 : PhD, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
- 1980 : B Sc (Honours) Geology, University of Wales, Cardiff
Professional association
- Chair of the Geological Society of London's Information Management Committee
- Chartered Geologist
- Fellow of the Geological Society
- Member of the Geoscience Information Consortium Steering Group
- Member of the Council of the Geological Society of London
- Member of the EU INSPIRE data sharing drafting team
- Member of the UK Location Council
Published outputs
Key papers
HUGHES, R.A., 2011. Geoscience data and derived spatial information: societal impacts and benefits, in Sinha, A.K., Arctur, D., Jackson, I., and Gundersen, L., eds., Societal Challenges and Geoinformatics: Geological Society of America Special Paper 482.
JACKSON, I and R.A. HUGHES, 2011. It's not your data, it's everyone's: the benefits of a corporate approach to scientific information. In Keller G.R and C. Baru eds., Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press.
SPIKINGS R.A., WINKLER W., HUGHES R.A. & R. HANDLER 2005. Thermochronology of the Cordillera Occidental and the Amotape Complex, Ecuador: unravelling the accretionary and post-accretionary history of the Northern Andes. Tectonophysics, 399, 195-220.
HUGHES, R.A. & L. PILATASIG. 2002. Accretionary history of the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes of Ecuador. Tectonophysics, 345, 29-48.
HUGHES, R.A., EVANS, J.A. NOBLE, S.R. & C.C. RUNDLE. 1996. U-Pb zircon ages and the sub-volcanic association of the Ennerdale and Eskdale intrusions (English Lake District). Journal of the Geological Society, London, 153, 33-38.
HUGHES, R.A. & P. KOKELAAR. 1993. The timing of Ordovician magmatism in the English Lake District and Cross Fell inliers. Geological Magazine, 130, 369-377.
HUGHES, R.A., COOPER, A.H. & P. STONE. 1993. Structural evolution of the Skiddaw Group (English Lake District) on the northern margin of eastern Avalonia. Geological Magazine, 130, 621-629.
