{"id":20731,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mcinroy-david\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:34:03","slug":"mcinroy-david","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mcinroy-david\/","title":{"rendered":"David McInroy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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David is a geologist and geophysicist with a research background in the evolution and hydrocarbon prospectivity of the UK\u2019s Atlantic Margin (2001-2010). He has worked on various industry-sponsored research projects for the BGS Rockall and Faroe-Shetland Basin consortia, the Western Frontiers Association and individual oil companies. More recently, David project manages the BGS delivery of scientific ocean drilling campaigns for the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), under the auspices of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) (2010-present), involving multi-million dollar operations in diverse environments around the world. In April 2017, David was appointed BGS Ocean Geoscience Team Leader, tasked with progressing deep-sea geoscientific research as part of the BGS Marine Geoscience Directorate. The team objectives are to support the exploration and exploitation of deep-sea mineral resources, and the environmental research that will be required to monitor the effects of that activity. The challenge for the team is both scientific and technical, as new key challenges are to create sustainable plans for technology developments for deep marine geological and habitat mapping, seabed and sub-seabed sampling, sensing, and monitoring.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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