{"id":20817,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/shimmield-tracy\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:23:59","slug":"shimmield-tracy","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/shimmield-tracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Tracy Shimmield"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<section class=\"content-section\" id=\"tabs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>Tracy Shimmield is the Director for the Lyell Centre, a purpose-built \u00a321 m facility, which will enable the British Geological Survey (BGS) and Heriot-Watt University (HWU) to build on their individual and combined interdisciplinary expertise in land and marine conservation, geology and geoscience. Tracy has over 30 years\u2019 experience in environmental geochemistry. She obtained an MSc. From Strathclyde University and a Ph.D. from Edinburgh University. Her research interests include the investigation and assessment of human impacts on the marine environment through the monitoring of pollutants and the study of biogeochemical processes involved in their redistribution. She is interested in how science and innovation can come together to realise societal benefit and economic growth and was a member of the Scotland Can Do Forum set up by the Scotland\u2019s Deputy First Minister. She also works with the Scottish CENSIS Innovation Centre<\/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<div class=\"sea-background-f\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"content-menu\"><li class=\"active\"><h5><a href=\"#tabs-1\">Biography<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-2\">Research<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-3\">Publications<\/a><\/h5><\/li><li ><h5><a href=\"#tabs-4\">Awards &amp; associations<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container tabs-content\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-1\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Tracy Shimmield&#8217;s Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2016: Director, Lyell Centre<\/li>\n<li>2012 \u2013 2016 Managing Director, SRSL<\/li>\n<li>2009 \u2013 2010 Associate Director, SAMS and Centre Leader: Industry and the Oceans<\/li>\n<li>2004 &#8211; 2009: Senior Lecturer, Head of Department<\/li>\n<li>2002 &#8211; 2004: Operational Group Leader of Geochemistry<\/li>\n<li>2000 &#8211; 2002: Operational Group Leader<\/li>\n<li>1997 &#8211; 2000: Marine Geochemist: Principal Investigator geochemistry group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-2\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Research interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Deep Sea Mining<\/li>\n<li>Marine Geochemistry<\/li>\n<li>Heavy Metal Geochemistry<\/li>\n<li>Anthropogenic Impacts<\/li>\n<li>Impacts of Marine Waste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-3\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Commissioned reports<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>Review of report, Review of Seabed Mining in the Northern Territory, (2016). Shimmield, T.M.<\/li>\n<li>Review of a scientific study proposal to determine the leaching potential of mine tailings in Chile, Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera del Pac\u00edfico (CMP), 2016. Shimmield, T.M. and Vare, L.<\/li>\n<li>Recommendations to determine the leaching potential of mine tailings in Chile, Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera del Pac\u00edfico (CMP), 2016. Vare, L and Shimmield, T.M.<\/li>\n<li>A high level overview of requirements for a successful approach to DSTP, Compa\u00f1\u00eda Minera del Pac\u00edfico (CMP), 2015. Shimmield, T.M. and Vare, L.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"row\" id=\"tabs-4\"><div class=\"col-12\"><p><strong>Professional associations<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2017 &#8211; Member of the Institute of Directors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Boards and committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"content-list\">\n<li>2018- Member of Deep Sea Mining Working Group chaired by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.<\/li>\n<li>2017 &#8211; Chair of GESAMP Working Group 42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":104017,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"6223,8129,8419,9812,8459,9089","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"tags":[],"bgs_role":[558],"level":[1221,1083],"location":[5],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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