Dr Colm Jordan
Team Leader EPOM
Location: Keyworth
Tel: 0115 936 3227
E-mail Dr Colm Jordan
Biography
- BGS Project Leader, ESA IAP Integrated Space Assets for Civil Contingencies
- BGS Project Leader, Global Earthquake Model - Inventory Data Capture Tools
- EO-MINERS FP7 - Work Package Leader
- 2007 –current : Team Leader of Earth and Planetary Observation and Monitoring
- 2002 : PhD (part-time) University of London, Queen Mary
- 1999 –2007 : Senior Remote Sensing Geologist, BGS
- 1998 : Remote Sensing Consultant, Geological Consultants (Ireland) Ltd.
- 1996 –1998 : College Lecturer (part-time), University College Dublin
- 1994 : MSc University of Aberdeen, Environment Remote Sensing
- 1994 –1998 : Remote Sensing Geologist, Geological Survey of Ireland
- 1993 : Archaeologist, Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit
- 1993 : Quaternary/Glacial Geologist, Geological Survey of Ireland
- 1992 : BA (Hons) University College Dublin, Geography & Archaeology
Boards and committees
- Member, NERC Airborne Remote Sensing Research Facility Steering Committee
- Member, NERC NEODASS Steering Committee
- Vice-Chair of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society (RSPSoc)
Skills
- 3D visualisation
- Digital mapping and GIS
- Geological mapping in Quaternary terrains
- Geomorphological mapping
- Image acquisition, processing and interpretation
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Research and project leadership
Current projects and collaboration
- System for Integrated Geoscience Mapping
- Earth and Planetary Observation and Monitoring
- International Charter, Space and Major Disasters
- EO-MINERS FP7 Project
- EVOSS
- Global Earthquake Model, Inventory Data Capture Tools
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PanGeo
- SubCoast
- Virtual Field Reconnaissance
- ESA Integrated Applications Project
- Remote Sensing Development at BGS
- 2009 : Ghana Airborne Geophysics
Professional association
- Fellow of RSPSoc
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Industrial Associate, Dept. of Geography, University of Leicester
Research interests
- Digital geological mapping
- Geomorphology
- Quaternary geology and glaciology
- Remote Sensing: airborne and satellite
- Visualisation (3D)
Published outputs
- NERC Open Research Archive — Dr Colm Jordan
- More than 100 peer reviewed papers, conference papers, articles and reports
- Over 100 maps published
Key papers
CLARK C D, HUGHES A, GREENWOOD S, JORDAN C J and SEJRUP H P (2012) Pattern and timing of retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, v44 pp112-146
CARNEY J N, JORDAN C J, THOMAS C W, CONDON D J, KEMP S J and DUODO J A (2010) Lithostratigraphy, sedimentation and evolution of the Volta Basin in Ghana. Precambrian Res, 183 (4). 701-724. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.08.012
HUGHES, A.L.C., CLARK, C.D. and JORDAN, C.J. (2010) Subglacial bedforms of the last British Ice Sheet, v2010, 543-563. 10.4113/jom.2010.1111.
JORDAN C J, CARNEY J, THOMAS C and McDONNELL P (2008) Application of remote sensing and field mapping to a revision of the geology of the Volta Basin. In: Kalsbeek (ed) The Voltaian Basin, Ghana. pp 87-90. ISBN 978-87-7871-233-2
JORDAN C J, CARNEY J, TURNER P, BATESON L, McDONNELL P and THOMAS C (2008) Application of digital data to the Airborne Geophysics Project in the Volta Basin. In: Kalsbeek (ed) The Voltaian Basin, Ghana. pp 91-94. ISBN 978-87-7871-233-2.
CLARK C D, EVANS D J,A, KHATWA A, BRADWELL T, JORDAN C J, MARSH S H, MITCHELL W A, and BATEMAN M D (2004) Glacial map of Britain and GIS database. Boreas Vol 33 No. 4 pp269-380.
- System for Integrated Geoscience Mapping
- Earth and Planetary Observation and Monitoring
- International Charter, Space and Major Disasters
- EO-MINERS FP7 Project
- EVOSS
- Global Earthquake Model, Inventory Data Capture Tools
- PanGeo
- SubCoast
- Virtual Field Reconnaissance
- Ghana Airborne Geophysics
- BATESON L B, EVANS H M and JORDAN C J (2011) GMES-service for assessing and monitoring subsidence hazards in coastal lowloand areas around Europe. , SubCoast D3.5.1. BGS OR/11/069
- JORDAN C J, BATESON L B, and GLANFIELD G (2012) PANGEO: Enabling Access to Geological Information in Support of GMES; D3.1 Survey Team Requirements and Recommendations V2, PanGeo Report. BGS CR/11/117
- JORDAN, C.J. and PENNINGTON C (2011) Digital field systems for landslides research, Geoconnexion UK, Jan/Feb
- HUGHES A, CHAMBERS J, GILES J, JORDAN C J, Kessler H, Kingson A, MARSH S, OGILVY R and PEACH D (2010) Looking forward to making predictions, Earthwise, 26. 38-39
- JORDAN, C.J. (2010) A new era for digital geological mapping with the 2nd release of the BGS digital mapping system, BGS-SIGMAmobile, Geoconnexion International, November
- WESTHEAD K, BELL P, JORDAN C J and KINGDON A (2010) From watercolour to web, Earthwise, 26. 12-13
- JORDAN C J, CLARK C D and HUGHES A L C(2010) Glacial 'climate control', Earthwise, 24. 28-29
