Ms Emma Bee CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Senior GIS specialist Employer: British Geological Survey Memo: Emma is currently a Senior Geographic Information Specialist (GIS) at the British Geological Survey and an active committee member of the AGI Environment SIG. Emma has worked within the GIS department at BGS for the last 8 years. During this time, she has worked on, and led, a number of varying projects including the digital capture of field data, promoting minerals information on line and most recently working with the BGS senior Leadership Team and Board to develop the BGS strategy 2009-2014. She designed and developed the BGS ArcGIS training course which she has delivered many times internally and externally for BGS as part of international geology projects. She is currently investigating incorporating socio-economic data into many of BGS' digital products. Emma graduated with a BSc in Human and Physical Geography from the University of Reading in 2000 where she won the Sir Halford Mackinder prize for the best undergraduate dissertation. She then went on to study at the University of Edinburgh where she graduated from in 2001 with an MSc in Geographic Information Science. Emma's parents are both teachers and consequently she has a keen interest in promoting geography, geology and GIS within academia.