Cathy Scheib (nee Emery)

Cathy ScheibEnvironmental Geoscience Baselines/Geochemist

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 9363100

E-mail Cathy Scheib

Biography

  • 2009–current: Project Manager of G-BASE
  • 2001–current: Geochemist at the British Geological Survey
  • 2001: MSc by research University of Glasgow & SUERC, ‘An investigation of the behaviour and distribution of radionuclides in the urban environment of Glasgow’
  • 1996–2000: BSc Hons University of Glasgow, Environmental Biogeochemistry
  • 1996 Cults Academy, Aberdeen

Research interests

  • Environmental geochemistry and health
  • Baseline Geochemistry
  • Radon potential mapping
  • Urban geochemistry & Contaminated land
  • Behaviour and fate of radionuclides in the environment
  • Environmental protection & Sustainability

Skills

  • Radon potential mapping: geological interpretation, statistical data analysis and uncertainty handling, interpretation, presentation and answering public enquiries within the framework of current legislation
  • Radiometric surveying: processing, statistical analysis and interpretation of the distribution of natural and anthropogenic radionuclides determined by airborne survey using Geosoft, Splus and Microsoft Access (e.g. High-resolution 137Cs dataset for Tellus survey of Northern Ireland)
  • Field techniques: environmental sampling (soil, water, sediment), in situ and continuous ground based gamma spectrometry, soil gas (radon, CO2, H2S etc) and soil gas permeability measurements
  • Prospectivity modelling: statistical analysis and interpretation of geochemical data, processing of evidence layers in the GIS software ArcSDM

Current projects and collaboration

Professional association

  • Fellow of the Geological Society

Published outputs

Key Papers

SCHEIB, C, APPLETON, J D, MILES, J C H, GREEN, B M R, BARLOW, T S, JONES, D G. In press. Geological controls on radon potential in Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology. LUSTY, P A J, SCHEIB, C, WALKER, A, and GUNN, A. 2009. Gold potential of the Southern Uplands-Down-Longford Terrane of Northern Ireland: prospectivity analysis using TELLUS data. British Geological Internal Report IR/09/019.

JONES, D, and SCHEIB, C. 2007. A preliminary interpretation of the Tellus airborne radiometric data. British Geological Survey Commission Report for the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland CR/07/061. 70 pp.