Science Advisory Committee

The BGS Science Advisory Committee (SAC) was recruited under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that the BGS signed with NERC following the creation of the BGS Board.

The composition of the SAC is:

• Prof Carol Frost (committee chair): Professor Emerita, University of Wyoming
• Dr Liz Fellman: director of strategy, planning and communications, Science and Technologies Facilities Council
• Prof Christopher Jackson, director of sustainable geoscience, Jacobs
• Prof David Manning, professor of soil science, Newcastle University
• Prof Sarah Metcalfe, professor of earth and environmental dynamics, University of Nottingham; interim provost and CEO, University of Nottingham Malaysia
• Dr Christopher Power, engineering geologist at Mott MacDonald specialising in geotechnical asset management, engineering rock geology and rock mechanics
• Ruth Allington, engineering geologist in independent practice, specialising in the design of quarries and mines, and immediate past president of The Geological Society
• Prof Neil Hyatt, chief scientific advisor to Nuclear Waste Services and Aegis Professor of deep time, University of Bristol
• Prof Jennifer McKinley, professor of geology and mathematical geoscience, Queen’s University Belfast