Dr Nick Smith is a Chartered Geologist with nearly 15 years of post-graduation experience, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, a Chartered Scientist, a European Geologist (with the European Federation of Geologists), a member of the Commission for Management and Application for Geological Information (CGI, within the International Union of Geosciences (IUGS)), a member of the Association of Geographical Information (AGI) and a member of the British Science Association.
Nick’s principal geological areas of expertise are in structural geology, sedimentology, stratigraphic modelling and basin analysis, palaeogeographical and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and geophysical investigation and interpretation of the subsurface (including interpretation of shallow and deep high resolution seismic reflection and refraction profiles, and interpretation of microgravity, resistivity, electromagnetic and ground penetrating radar surveys). Nick is also a technical specialist in the area of geological and geoenvironmental subsurface and surface characterisation of contaminated land, including the investigation and characterisation of geology and hydrogeology of contaminated sites, and particularly potentially radioactively contaminated land.
Recent experience with BNFL and NNL has included the interpretation of the deeper (bedrock) geology, related to groundwater contamination on UK nuclear sites (including fault and sequence characterisation, interpretation of borehole core etc). He co-authored the main geological report for the Sellafield Contaminated Land Study, providing valuable and new insight into the character of the deeper (Triassic aged) sandstone sequences at Sellafield.
Nick is also Technical Lead of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) capability within the team, providing leadership in all aspects of GIS, geospatial analysis and the integration of GIS with 3D conceptual modelling. Nick has also just taken on a new role as NNL Research Fellow in Geological Disposal, in which he will extend his geological and GIS research into research areas associated with geological disposal.
