Team Leader Geol. Modelling Systems

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3197

E-mail Mr Holger Kessler

Biography

•  2007 –current :  Team Leader of Geological Modelling Systems
•  2003 –2010 :  Project leader of GSI3D software development
•  1998 :  MSc Frankfurt University, Physical Geography
•  1998 –2004 :  employed by BGS as Survey Geologist

Software

•  GSI3D geological modelling software, available on www.gsi3d.org.uk

Skills

•  Project management
•  fluent in German

Research interests

•  3D geological modelling and visualisation
•  Soil and quaternary science
•  Systems development

Professional association

•  member of the Quaternary Research Association
•  member of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment (IAEG)

Published outputs

• NERC Open Research Archive — Holger Kessler

Key papers

KESSLER, H., MATHERS, S.J. & H.G. SOBISCH. 2009. The capture and dissemination of integrated 3D geospatial knowledge at the British Geological Survey using GSI3D software and methodology. Computers & Geosciences, 35, 1311-1321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2008.04.005; http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7207/1/Kessler_CG_GSI3D_article_final.pdf

MATHERS, S.J., KESSLER, H. & H.G. SOBISCH. 2009. 3D Geological Modelling at the British Geological Survey using the GSI3D software and methodology [extended abstract]. In: EUREGEO 2009 : European congress on Regional Geoscientific Cartography and Information Systems, Munich, Germany, 9-12 June 2009. Augsburg, Bayerisches Landesamt fur Umwelt, 82-84. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7823/1/Mathers_extended_abstract_5.pdf

MATHERS, S.J. & H. KESSLER. 2008. GSI3D the software and methodology to build systematic near-surface 3-D geological models - Version 2.6. British Geological Survey, (OR/08/064) 130pp. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/4903/1/GSI3D_manual_V2_6_OR08064.pdf

KESSLER, H., MATHERS, S.J., NAPIER, B., TERRINGTON, R. & SOBISCH, H.G. 2007. The present and future construction and delivery of 3D geological models at the British Geological Survey. GSA Denver Annual Meeting. [Poster]. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/3756/1/Present_future_3Dmodels_(3).pdf

KESSLER H. & S.J. MATHERS. 2006. The past, present and future of 3D Geology in BGS In: Open University Geological Society Journal, Volume 27(2), 13-15. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/5193/1/OU_paper_3D-Geology.pdf

KESSLER, H. & S.J. MATHERS. 2004. From geological maps to models - finally capturing the geologists' vision. Geoscientist, 14/10, pp. 4-6. http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/983/1/Map_to_model_article.pdf

• member of the Quaternary Research Association
• International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment

• NERC Open Research Archive — Holger Kessler
• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2008.04.005
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7207/1/Kessler_CG_GSI3D_article_final.pdf
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/7823/1/Mathers_extended_abstract_5.pdf
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/4903/1/GSI3D_manual_V2_6_OR08064.pdf
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/3756/1/Present_future_3Dmodels_(3).pdf
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/5193/1/OU_paper_3D-Geology.pdf
• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/983/1/Map_to_model_article.pdf