Garry Baker appointed BGS Director of Informatics
Garry Baker has been appointed by the British Geological Survey (BGS) to be its new Director of Informatics.
07/09/2022 By BGS PressGarry Baker has been appointed by BGS as its new Director of Informatics.
As a member of the BGS Science Strategy group and part of the BGS Senior Management Board, this important post will help to deliver the new science strategy from 2023 .
Garry will be responsible for the strategic leadership of the BGS informatics programmes, including the National Geoscience Data Centre, ensuring efficient stewardship of analogue and digital assets to enable research and help create value and impact.
Based at the BGS headquarters in Keyworth, Nottingham, and working across all BGS sites, the role takes leadership of around 130 informatics staff.
I am excited to be taking on this new and exciting role of BGS Director of Informatics. I am looking forward to ensuring that we, as an organisation, manage our unique national data assets and leverage the latest capabilities to achieve our overall business and science strategies, as well as building strong connections with external communities.
Garry Baker, BGS Director of Informatics.
Garry has over 26 years’ experience in data and information management, working on survey, collaborative and commercial projects both nationally and internationally. This has included IT development and management roles, project and programme management and ultimately managing the BGS Data Centre, which is a significant component of the UKRI/NERC Environment Data Service. Garry plans on using his experience to revitalise informatics’ capabilities and solutions for both BGS and external communities.
On behalf of BGS and the BGS Board I am delighted to welcome Garry into this role. I am really looking forward to working with him to develop a new and coherent informatics strategy, which will underpin our new BGS Science Strategy. Garry has an outstanding track record as a data and informatics leader and I know that he will use this experience to ensure that BGS is at the forefront of digital innovation and research.
Dr Karen Hanghøj, BGS Director.
Garry started his new appointment as Director of Informatics on 1 September 2022.
Related news
UK bidding to host the International Geological Congress 2028
18/03/2024
BGS has partnered with the Geological Society of London and the Scottish Geology Trust to develop a bid to host the 38th International Geological Congress in Glasgow in 2028.
BGS to lead a new research project on microplastic occurrence in springs
06/03/2024
BGS has been awarded a two-year research project to undertake the first assessment of microplastic occurrence in springs in the UK.
Local MP helps BGS launch a ‘living laboratory’
05/03/2024
BGS is implementing a low-carbon heating system to help meet its net zero targets and provide data to the public.
Scientists produce first record of environmental data off coast of Hawai’i
01/03/2024
An international team of researchers, including BGS geoscientists, have succeeded in acquiring a continuous record of environmental data using fossilised coral from Hawai’i.
BGS data product licence fees to rise
01/03/2024
New direct licence fees to be introduced from 1 April 2024.
BGS seismologist named editor-in-chief of Geophysical Journal International
29/02/2024
Margarita Segou has been appointed as the editor-in-chief of one of the world’s leading, peer-reviewed research journals in solid-Earth geophysics.
BGS to help deliver International Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management
27/02/2024
BGS has been announced as part of a consortium approved by the UN to deliver its International Centres of Excellence on Sustainable Resource Management.
BGS scientist announced as Scottish Government policy fellow
06/02/2024
BGS geohazard scientist Roxana Ciurean has been named amongst new policy fellows for the Scottish Government.
BGS adds more than 60 new carbon dioxide storage units to its national carbon dioxide storage database
30/01/2024
BGS has delivered its first major update of the national carbon dioxide storage database, CO2 Stored.
Burrow-detecting devices could protect flood defences
23/01/2024
BGS scientists have trialled a new way of detecting animal burrows in clay flood embankments.
BGS completes first mapping expedition to Ascension Island
11/12/2023
BGS marine geoscientists travelled to Ascension Island to support its government with an ongoing, conservation-driven mapping programme.